In the history of philosophy mathematics has often been considered a privileged path to transcendence. However, in the last decades, due to the use of the axiomatic method (and above all to its ideological abuse by many analytic philosophers), the perspective has been completely inverted: nowadays, indeed, it seems that mathematics has nothing to do with metaphysics, and very often that it has not even a real meaning, being nothing more than a conventional combination of empty symbols. On the contrary, in the present paper I’ll try to show that precisely the most recent developments of mathematics, as Gödel’s Theorem, fractal geometry, and axiomatic method itself, if correctly understood, demonstrate that most of the classical paths leading from mathematics to transcendence are still valid (even if sometimes they should be based on partially different grounds), and can even suggest some new ones.
Maths, God and the immortality of the soul
MUSSO, PAOLO
2014-01-01
Abstract
In the history of philosophy mathematics has often been considered a privileged path to transcendence. However, in the last decades, due to the use of the axiomatic method (and above all to its ideological abuse by many analytic philosophers), the perspective has been completely inverted: nowadays, indeed, it seems that mathematics has nothing to do with metaphysics, and very often that it has not even a real meaning, being nothing more than a conventional combination of empty symbols. On the contrary, in the present paper I’ll try to show that precisely the most recent developments of mathematics, as Gödel’s Theorem, fractal geometry, and axiomatic method itself, if correctly understood, demonstrate that most of the classical paths leading from mathematics to transcendence are still valid (even if sometimes they should be based on partially different grounds), and can even suggest some new ones.
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