
While other classes are continuing online, we were back in the Greek Community classrooms with Nabeel Khan on Tuesday evening (2 Feb) for the much anticipated Platonic Esoteric Geometry course.
While other classes are continuing online, we were back in the Greek Community classrooms with Nabeel Khan on Tuesday evening (2 Feb) for the much anticipated Platonic Esoteric Geometry course.
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Mark Faller · 27 February 2021 at 4:44 am
Does anyone have an English working copy of Gaiser’s work on Plato’s mathematics?
The Platonic Academy · 28 February 2021 at 1:40 pm
Mark, I have not read Konrad Gaiser before, but after a quick look there is much to commend. So many (linguistically imprisoned? math-phobic?) readers are blind to the pointers to something deeper, especially in the Republic and later dialogues, where the opposites one/not-one, odd/even, same/other, being/not-being point to the elements of a formal ontological that is at the same time a foundation of Mathematics. The ‘unwritten doctrines’ controversy seems entirely futile when arguing against such blindness. But, if Gaiser has gone beyond the debate and deeper into the foundations of Platonic math, then I would be interested to see.
Are Gaiser’s books even translated? I did find some fine essays in English, including this one available through Google Books: “Plato’s Synopsis of the Mathematical Sciences” in The Other Plato — Bernie
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