In the “mathematical curriculum” articulated by Plato in Resp. VII, Socrates and Glaucon attribute to arithmetics, “logistike” and geometry a certain “power” (“dynamis”), which is described through images, metaphors, comical sketches, references to epos and tragedy. The analysis line by line of such a description helps us to understand that we are not only in front of the first formulation of “mathematical platonism” in our philosophical tradition, but that it is part of a more extensive theorization focussed on the power – exercised by mathematics (especially by some mathematical procedures) – of mediating between senses and mind, visible and invisible, movement/temporality and eternity.
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Titolo: | Un nouveau pouvoir pour les mathématiques. Quelques remarques sur le cursus d’études du Livre VII de “La République” |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2005 |
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Abstract: | In the “mathematical curriculum” articulated by Plato in Resp. VII, Socrates and Glaucon attribute to arithmetics, “logistike” and geometry a certain “power” (“dynamis”), which is described through images, metaphors, comical sketches, references to epos and tragedy. The analysis line by line of such a description helps us to understand that we are not only in front of the first formulation of “mathematical platonism” in our philosophical tradition, but that it is part of a more extensive theorization focussed on the power – exercised by mathematics (especially by some mathematical procedures) – of mediating between senses and mind, visible and invisible, movement/temporality and eternity. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11584/17946 |
ISBN: | 2-7475-8264-7 |
Tipologia: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |