Matter, Imagination and Geometry-Ontology, natural philosophy and mathematics in Plotinus, Proclus and Descartes (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) [Hardcover]

Dmitri V. Nikulin (Author), Dmitri Nikulin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 075461574X | ISBN-13: 978-0754615743 | Publication Date: February 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

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, Dmitri Nikulin 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd; 1st edition (February 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075461574X
• ISBN-13: 978-0754615743
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,574,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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