Antique Cosmos and Modern Science

The publication of the book by the genius Russian philosopher Alexei Fyodorovich Losev (1893-1988) "Antique Cosmos and Modern Science" is timed to the 130th anniversary of his birth and the 35th anniversary of his death. In this work, the outstanding... scholar aims to show how the antique cosmos is dialectically justified, i.e., what dialectical categories were used by Greek thinkers to "construct the universe they contemplated." The main concepts underlying Losev's entire research are name, number, and thing. In the antique tradition, according to Losev, the name is the "likeness," the expressive form of the thing itself. The number is the constructive basis of any thing. The thing itself is a self-existing entity, which is the subject of human cognition through the number and name, representing objective ways of a sequential process of comprehending objects. Alongside this, Losev traces a direct connection between the concepts inherent in antiquity and the achievements of science that existed at the time of writing his work.
The book is addressed to historians of domestic thought, philosophers, cultural scientists, and also to a circle of educated readers striving to comprehend the holistic picture of the world.