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Beautiful Structures argues that structure, mathematics, aesthetics, teleology, and personhood belong together rather than existing as separate domains requiring subsequent integration. The world is necessarily structured, and structure possesses an aesthetic character as a condition of its existence rather than becoming aesthetic only through human response.
Mathematics, on this account, is not an abstract language imposed upon reality but the articulation of the relations constitutive of structure itself. Modern physics reveals that the fundamental mathematical structures underlying the physical world possess the contingent property of beauty. Subatomic structures and forces have repeatedly been recognized by physicists as elegant, symmetrical, harmonious, and beautiful. Yet beauty is not a necessary property of structure: structures may be aesthetically defective as well as beautiful. The remarkable beauty of the foundational structures disclosed by physics therefore calls for explanation.
The book argues that this question leads naturally from aesthetics to teleology. The ordered relation of parts within beautiful structures suggests an intentional order in which aesthetic and purposive organization are intimately connected. With the emergence of life arise forms of organization capable of purposive activity and, ultimately, the expression of personhood. These developments need not be understood as alien additions to an otherwise purposeless nature, but as continuous with teleological possibilities already inherent within its structures.
Moving through physics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and theology, Beautiful Structures culminates in an account of the world as divine creation: a teleological artefact whose mathematical beauty, purposive order, capacity for life, and emergence of personhood can be understood as internally related features of a single created reality.
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Charles Pickles studied psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland; clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London; philosophy at the University of London; and science and religion at the University of Edinburgh, where he completed an MSc with distinction and a PhD. He also studied philosophy at the University of South Africa, graduating with distinction, and worked for over thirty years as an NHS clinician and lecturer in psychology.
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