La paradójica herencia de la Ilustración kantiana en Schopenhauer

El principal objetivo de este artículo es mostrar las coincidencias, a la vez que las discrepancias, de la lectura hecha por Schopenhauer del programa ilustrado propuesto por Kant. En concreto, se considerarán cuatro grandes temas: sus respectivas afirmaciones respecto a la figura de Federico el Grande y a las principales características de la Ilustración; la idea de esperanza, progreso e historia en el panorama ilustrado; la cosa-en-sí kantiana interpretada como voluntad; y la particular lectura schopenhaueriana del famoso lema kantiano sapere aude!.

Current velocities and settling experimental results

This study provides a theoretical assessment of the potential bias due to differential lateral transport on multi-proxy studies based on a range of marine microfossils. Microfossils preserved in marine sediments are at the centre of numerous proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. The precision of proxies is based on the assumption that they accurately represent the overlying watercolumn properties and faunas. Here we assess the possibility of a syn-depositional bias in sediment assemblages caused by horizontal drift in the water column, due to differential settling velocities of sedimenting particles based on their shape, size and density, and due to differences in current velocities. Specifically we calculate the post-mortem lateral transport undergone by planktic foraminifera and a range of other biological proxy carriers (diatoms, radiolaria and fecal pellets transporting coccolithophores) in several regions with high current velocities. We find that lateral transport of different planktic foraminiferal species is minimal due to high settling velocities. No significant shape- or size-dependent sorting occurs before reaching the sediment, making planktic foraminiferal ideal proxy carriers. In contrast, diatoms, radiolaria and fecal pellets can be transported up to 500 km in some areas. For example in the Agulhas current, transport can lead to differences of up to 2°C in temperature reconstructions between different proxies in response to settling velocities. Therefore, sediment samples are likely to contain different proportions of local and imported particles, decreasing the precision of proxies based on these groups and the accuracy of the temperature reconstruction.