Matter and energy

physical or metaphysical concepts?

pp. 131-138

in: Mario Bunge, Evaluating philosophies, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Abstract

All the sciences and technologies of reality deal with concrete or material things endowed with energy, and the materialist worldview emerged in Greece and India two and a half millennia ago, and flourished in the French Enlightenment. And yet, there is still no consensus about the definitions of the general concepts of matter and energy. Let us deal with both of them, starting with the second.