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Matter, Imagination Geometry: Ontology, Natural Philosophy
Ontology, Natural Philosophy Mathematics in Plotinus, Proclus

English · Hardback

Will be released 30.09.2018

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This title was first published in 2002: This text considers the applicability of mathematics to the study of natural phenomena. The possibility of such an application is one of the fundamental assumptions underlying the enormous theoretical and practical success of modern science. Addressing problems of matter, substance, infinity, number, structure of cognitive faculties, imagination, and of construction and mathematical object, the author examines mathematical (geometrical) objects in their relation to geometrical or intelligible matter and to imagination. Exploring questions in the history of philosophy and science of late antiquity and early modernity, the key thinkers of focus are Plotinus and Descartes (with the occasional appearance of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Proclus, Newton and others), in whom the fundamental presuppositions of ripe antiquity and of early modernity find their definite expression.

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Authors Dmitri Nikulin, Nikulin, Professor of Philosophy Dmitri (The New S Nikulin, Professor of Philosophy Dmitri (The New School for Social Research New York USA) Nikulin
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 30.09.2018
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology
 
EAN 9781138724549
ISBN 978-1-138-72454-9
 

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