Hegel saw it being the same as what Plato did for the Greeks by giving them an interpretation of the nature of Greek ethical life. ... He uses mathematics as the example to say that in mathit is acceptable to establish your own theories by using other peoples theorem without having to prove those theorem again yourself, but this is because it is the way of the world of learning to stand on the shoulders of those that have come before you. Mathematics is a collective rather than individual achievements. ...

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From the perspectives of Karl La ¶with and Hans Jonas concerning human orientation to a 'higher' metaphysical dimension, the ancient Greek, eternal cosmic order appears to be normative to human thinking and acting as far as in the ancient-Greek philosophies the cosmos, as an 'eternal jewel', shares goodness, beauty and rationality. ... Man is creator of mathematical objects and mathematics becomes the gateway to knowledge of reality. ...

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