The Disinterested Spectator
An online journal of philosophical research and cultural criticism
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A note on the metaphysical import of algebraAlgebra found its way into modern mathematics by way of the early-modern rediscovery of Diophantus of Alexandria, who appropriated it from the Arabs. This ‘original’ algebra was conceived by the Arabic savants as an art. And yet not merely an art like no other; rather something…
On reason and intellectTwo basic principles: ratio and intellectus. Ratio is ‘reasoning’ properly so called, aimed at the acquisition of a particular ‘result’. Intellectus, on the other hand, is the contemplative gaze upon being as an end in, of, and for itself. The right relation between intellect and…
