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If Jeffery Kalb's music book thesis is correct it destroys the Descartes/Bacon "Enlightenment" presumptions of modernity. You see the big picture in my opinion which is almost impossible to find even with smart guys like Feser and McInerney:

If Jeffery Kalb's music book thesis is correct it destroys the Descartes/Bacon "Enlightenment" presumptions of modernity. You see the big picture in my opinion which is almost impossible to find even with smart guys like Feser and McInerney:


Music and Measurement: On the Eidetic Principles of Harmony and Motion Paperback – June 11, 2019


The modern world is made in the image of algebra and the infinitesimal calculus that is grounded in it. But are the philosophical presuppositions of these mathematical disciplines even coherent? Mr. Kalb maintains that they are not, but that algebra is in fact a confused doctrine of music. Building upon the work of Jacob Klein, he first critiques the modern concept of number, which he shows to have been confused with quantity. He then proceeds to develop a genuine theory of quantity and measurement upon new foundations, from which are derived immediately the mathematical rules of musical harmony. After deriving the forms of harmony and the major and minor scales, he turns his attention to the problem of motion and modern physics. He concludes by drawing the consequences this theory of music has for the philosophy of nature.


https://christianorder.com/features/feature_2003-11_b.html

James Larson: 

Cardinal Ratzinger's statement that "As a result of this struggle [between faith and reason], a new philosophical category – the concept of "person" – was fashioned, a concept that has become for us the fundamental concept of the analogy between God and man, the very centre of philosophical thought."

First, we should realize that whatever Cardinal Ratzinger and his contemporaries have done in their efforts to circumvent Scholastic Philosophy (this means all their contemporary methods and philosophical approaches which might seems so "fuzzy" to us) they have grown out of an attempt to solve some sort of struggle between faith and reason. As we have seen in The War Against Being, however, this struggle between what Cardinal Ratzinger calls faith and reason really amounts to a struggle between faith and reductive analytical science. And since this bogus "science" has absolutely no capability to grasp substantial reality, it is really a straw-man.

The modern philosophical approaches which are the fruit of this "grappling" with modern science should therefore never have happened if these theologians and philosophers had ever really grasped not only the nature of Thomistic metaphysics but also the simplest fact about even the simplest created thing: that its substantive nature cannot be reduced to quantitative analysis.

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