A History of the Infinite: The Infinite and Human Experience

Adrian Moore brings listeners to the verge of the modern world and the way people think now. He steps into the world of enlightenment philosophy, as heralded by Rene Descartes. Descartes was a typical enlightenment philosopher, seeking to establish what understanding people can have of the infinite using their own finite intellectual resources. But how can an individual have any sense of infinity, if they have no direct experience of it?