Hermenéutica acerca de la caída de los cuerpos U n modelo filosófico-pedagógico para explicar el vacío tecnológico / Debate about the falling bodies phenomena; philosophical and pedagogical model to explain the technological vacuum

Abstract

The present research is a didactic allegory where the philosophers Aristotle and Galilei in a simulated confrontation argue their ideas in front of a modern scientific tribunal, in order to indentify who of both was right in the case of falling bodies, and answer the question: ¿when two objects are left, which of them arrives first to the grown?. Firstly, the definition of “grave” is done with a comparative analysis between the classical philosophy and the galilean-newtonian position, under the eyes of the modern physic. to explain the vacuum, a pedagogical model is done. Judging the situation only in a qualitative way, the coherence of the Aristotle’s physics is shown in comparison with the Galilei’s ideal physics. Finally, a quantitative extension of the Galileo’s point of view is made to show the methodology of modern sciences and answer the mentioned question.