Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half later, Plato argued that the world we live in is but a poor copy of the world of ideas. Neither realized that their numbers and ideas might also be the most basic components of the human psych: archetypes. This book traces the modern evolution of this idea from the Renaissance to the 20th century, leading up to the archetypal hypothesis of psychologist C. G. Jung, and the mirroring of mathematical ideas of Kurt Goedel.
- ISBN10 1504033779
- ISBN13 9781504033770
- Publish Date 28 June 2016 (first published 8 July 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Open Road Distribution
- Format eBook
- Pages 324
- Language English