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The Metaphysical Principles of the Infinitesimal Calculus Hardback - 2004

by Rene Guenon; Rene Guenon

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Ren Gunon (1886-1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of intellectual fashion. His extensive writings, now finally available in English, are a providential treasure-trove for the modern seeker: while pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, they direct the reader also to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization.

Gunon's early and abiding interest in mathematics, like that of Plato, Pascal, Leibniz, and many other metaphysicians of note, runs like a scarlet thread throughout his doctrinal studies. In this late text, published just five years before his death, Gunon devotes an entire volume to questions regarding the nature of limits and the infinite with respect to the calculus both as a mathematical discipline and as symbolism for the initiatic path. According to Gunon, infinity is a metaphysical concept at a higher level of reality than that of quantity, where all that can be expressed is the indefinite, not the infinite. But although quantity is the only level recognized by modern science, the numbers that express it also possess qualities, their quantitative aspect being merely their outer husk. Our reliance today on a mathematics of approximation and probability only further conceals the 'qualitative mathematics' of the ancient world, which comes to us most directly through the Pythagorean-Platonic tradition. This book therefore extends and complements the geometrical symbolism he employs in other works, especially The Symbolism of the Cross, The Multiple States of the Being, and Symbols of Sacred Science. According to Gunon, the concept 'infinite number' is a contradiction in terms.

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PROCEEDING IN A MANNER INVERSE to that of profane science, and in accordance with the unchanging perspective of all traditional science, we must before all else set forth the principle that will allow us almost immediately to resolve the difficulties to which the infinitesimal method has given rise, without letting ourselves be led astray by potentially interminable discussions, as indeed happens in the case of those modern philosophers and mathematicians who, by the very fact that they lack this principle, have never provided a satisfactory and definitive solution to these difficulties.

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  • Title The Metaphysical Principles of the Infinitesimal Calculus
  • Author Rene Guenon; Rene Guenon
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st English Ed
  • Pages 152
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Sophia Perennis
  • Publication date June 1, 2004
  • Features Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780900588082

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