Thomism vs. Ratzinger with his Vatican II contemporaries & "early Greek philosophers practiced one form or another of a very strange scientific reductionism"
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: See all 2 images Music and Measurement: On the Eidetic Principles of Harmony and Motion Paperback – June 11, 2019 by Jeffrey C Kalb Jr. (Author) See all formats and editions Paperback $5.63 1 New from $5.63 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 fo...