The great G. W. Leibniz articulates very neatly the relationship between philosophy and mathematics (and indeed human knowledge):
1.“Sans les mathématiques on ne pénétre point au fond de la philosophie.
2.Sans la philosophie on ne pénétre point au fond des mathématiques.
3.Sans les deux on ne pénétre au fond de rien.”
which in translation (see Tim Gowers’ page) reads
1.Without Mathematics one cannot understand the fundamentals of Philosophy.
2.Without Philosophy we cannot reach the Foundation of Mathematics.
3.Without both (Mathematics and Philosophy) one cannot reach anything that is fundamental.
In order to be able to make use of the famous words of Benedetto Croce in the title, I post here links to sites where the works of some major thinkers of the Western canon can be located (either in the original language or in translation). The selection is of course idiosyncratic, but gives precedence to those who resonate more closely to the ideas of this blog:
|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz||works:German,Latin,French|
|Karl Marx and Frederick Engels||works:German|
Below a set of links to interesting lectures, where great thinkers have produced a sum-up of their thought: