La mente creativa. Matematica, immaginazione e pensiero astratto in Descartes

The aim of the present work is a new interpretation of modern science based on the concept of construction. In the first part of the work I poin out the main features of modern science as a subjective challenge. In the second I show the social and political context of cartesian science. In the third part I show in which terms construction is the main category of modern mathematics and therefore of modern sciences. In the end I propose a shor comparison between Aristotle's notion of intellect and the cartesian one, pointing out the rolle of imagination as main faculty of modern science.