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This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how
Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or
divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present.
Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated an essential
transformation over time of the ancient notion of divine mind and
of thought in general. Beginning with an examination of Aristotle's
notion of essence, Plato's creation myth in the "Timaeus", and
Plotinus' "One", it is shown how faith in the hands of Augustine
and Aquinas fundamentally reshaped Western thought and made
possible in the modern period the radical subjectivity of Descartes
brought to perfection by Kant and Hegel. The strenuous
counter-thinking of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Levinas is closely
compared to its disarming alternative, the thinking of Jefferson,
Emerson and C.S. Peirce the father of American pragmatism.
This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how
Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or
divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present.
Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated an essential
transformation over time of the ancient notion of divine mind and
of thought in general. Beginning with an examination of Aristotle's
notion of essence, Plato's creation myth in the "Timaeus", and
Plotinus' "One", it is shown how faith in the hands of Augustine
and Aquinas fundamentally reshaped Western thought and made
possible in the modern period the radical subjectivity of Descartes
brought to perfection by Kant and Hegel. The strenuous
counter-thinking of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Levinas is closely
compared to its disarming alternative, the thinking of Jefferson,
Emerson and C.S. Peirce the father of American pragmatism.
This book examines how Christian faith has historically impacted
the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and
including the present. Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated
an essential transformation over time of the ancient notion of
divine mind and of thought in general. Beginning with an
examination of Aristotle's notion of essence, Plato's creation myth
in the Timaeus, and Plotinus' One, it is shown how faith in the
hands of Augustine and Aquinas fundamentally reshaped Western
thought and made possible in the modern period the radical
subjectivity of Descartes brought to perfection by Kant and Hegel.
The strenuous counter-thinking of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and
Levinas is closely compared to its disarming alternative, the
thinking of Jefferson, Emerson, and C. S. Peirce, the father of
American pragmatism.
This book contains thirty-three full-color illustrations. The title
piece presents a beautifully simple proof that there is a central
cube, constitutionally unique among all cubes, the absolute dead
center cube. An illustration accompanies the proof. It is
additionally proven that the hypercubic volume of this cube is
uniquely constituted as a natural number. The mathematics of the
unique cube and hypercube are then related to physical measures of
magnitude and balance, and to the real trinary logic articulated in
an earlier work, Foundation: Matter the Body Itself. The trinary
logic is, in turn, shown to have a foundational relationship to the
arithmetic and geometric series, to the series of perfect numbers,
and to the Banach-Tarski paradox. Original geometric constructions
based on the properties of the division in extreme and mean ratio
are illustrated and further related to the logarithmic spiral and
to the physical constants. Five appendices deal with Fibonacci's
rabbit tree, the rationality of the so-called irrationals, an
understanding of mathematics without a notion of nothing, the New
Jerusalem cube, and creation ex nihilo, the latter related to the
structure of the Trinity.
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