Author: Philo (of Alexandria.)Publish On: 2001-01-01
1.54 , 1.34 ) , Philo often speaks of such variegation in relation to the heavens and the cosmos as a totality . See especially the rich passage at Somn . 1.203-207 , where he exploits the biblical usage of the word in connection with ...
Author: Philo (of Alexandria.)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004121692
Category: Religion
Page: 478
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This study is the first volume in the new Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series. It contains a new English translation of Philo's famous treatise "On the creation of the cosmos" (the first for seventy years), and the first ever commentary in English. In this work the Jewish exegete and philosopher gives a selective exegesis of the Mosaic creation account and the events in Paradise as recorded in Genesis 1-3. It is the first preserved example of Hexaemeral literature, and had a profound influence on early Christian thought. The commentary aims to make Philo's thought accessible to readers such as graduate students who are just beginning to read him, but also contains much material that will be of interest to specialists in Hellenistic Judaism, ancient philosophy and patristic literature.
Sacrificing burnt hearts temporarily bound the reed years , keep- ing the cosmos in a balanced motion . This sacrificially transformative cosmos is the topic of this chapter . First , I describe the New Fire ceremony and discuss past ...
Author: Kay Almere Read
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253113911
Category: Religion
Page: 350
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This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
... and a sixth and final chapter expressing his new ideas on broadly cosmo- logical subjects. This last chapter, only eleven pages long, caught the attention of his popular audience, as well as of professional astronomers, ...
Author: John North
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226594415
Category: Science
Page: 903
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The definitive history of humanity's search to find its place within the universe. North charts the history of astronomy and cosmology from the Paleolithic period to the present day.
The name of God is not the name of a causal power but of a theopoetic call, of a cosmo-theopoetic event. Theopoetics is the name of an ontohermeneutical relation between the world and us that lasts just as long as we do.
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253043139
Category: Religion
Page: 306
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The renowned theologian “brings Luther and cosmology into dialogue with radical theological movements that have their point of departure in deconstruction” (George Pattison, author of Eternal God/Saving Time). John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and racial and sexual discrimination. Caputo is clear that he is not writing as any kind of orthodox Lutheran but is instead engaging with a radical view of theology, cosmology, and poetics of the cross. Readers will recognize Caputo’s signature themes—hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call—as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics. “This work will be eagerly awaited and immediately read by John D. Caputo’s many followers. They will be looking for him to fill out the ‘big picture’ which makes manifest for the first time all the parts and pieces he has contributed to the theological project he launched early in the previous decade.” —Carl Raschke, author of Postmodern Theology “Caputo is always distinctive.” —George Pattison, author of Eternal God/Saving Time
Quantum physics has to exist ( in some sense ) so that a quantum transition can generate the cosmos in the first place ” .45 Professor Adolf Grünbaum warns that some commonly used terms are misleading : " In the case of the so - called ...
Author: Henry Margenau
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 0812691865
Category: Religion
Page: 304
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Stranger and more momentous than the strangest of scientific theories is the appearance of God on the intellectual horizon of contemporary science. From Einstein, Planck, and Heisenberg, to Margenau, Hawking, and Eccles, some of the most penetrating modern minds have needed God in order to make sense of the cosmos.
Author: Anna-Teresa TymienieckaPublish On: 2012-10-11
Cosmo-Transcendental Positioning of the Living Being in the Universe in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's New Enlightenment . ... 9 Halil Turan Competing Concepts of the Cosmos in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries .
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400748002
Category: Philosophy
Page: 354
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The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive force. This latter call for an existential source reaching beyond the generative life-world network. Transcendental consciousness, having lost its absolute status (its point of reference) it is the role of the logos to lay down the harmonious positioning in the cosmic sphere of the all, establishing an original foundation of phenomenology in the primogenital ontopoiesis of life.
A litany of rocket scientists and journalists made pilgrimages to his home in Kaluga to see firsthand the laboratory belonging to the father of cosmo- nautics . Many of these scientists , mentioned in this book , were actually inspired ...
Author: James T. Andrews
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603441689
Category: History
Page: 172
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Long before the space race captured the world’s attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs. Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned by Stalin to give a speech from Red Square on May Day 1935, lauding the Soviet technological future while also dreaming and expounding on his own visions of conquering the cosmos. Later, the Khrushchev regime used him as a "poster boy" for Soviet excellence during its Cold War competition with the United States. Ironically, some revisionists have since pointed to such blatant promotion by the Communist Party in an attempt to downplay Tsiolkovskii’s scientific contributions. James T. Andrews explores the complexities of this man to show that Tsiolkovskii was much more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool. He was a science popularizer, novelist, technical inventor, and visionary, whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer’s drawing board. Mining a myriad of Russian archives, Andrews produces not only a biographical account but also a study of Soviet technological propaganda, local science education, public culture in the 1920s and 1930s, and the cultural ramifications of space flight.
'Johann Georg von Soldner and the gravitational bending of light', Foundations of Physics 8, 927–950. —— (1990). Cosmos in Transition. Studies in the History of Cosmology. Tucson: Pachart Publishing House. James, Frank A. J. L. (1982).
Author: Helge S. Kragh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191526169
Category: Science
Page: 288
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This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle's cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as a subject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into a true science of the heavens. Contrary to most other books in the history of cosmology, it offers an integrated account of the development with emphasis on the modern Einsteinian and post-Einsteinian period. Starting in the pre-literary era, it carries the story onwards to the early years of the 21st century.
See string/superstring theory supersymmetry, 210 symmetry, xv, 15–20, 68, 89, 116, 120– 21, 128, 131, 180–86, 187, 196 classical approach to, 15, 17, 18, 19, 120, 128, 129, 175 and cosmo(gony)(logy), 180, 181–82, 184, 186, 202, ...
Author: Steven M. Rosen
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812771742
Category: Science
Page: 291
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This unique book offers an original way of thinking about two of the most significant problems confronting modern theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the prevailing approach to these questions, the author demonstrates the need for more than just a new theory. The meanings of space and time themselves must be radically rethought, which requires a whole new philosophical foundation. To this end, the book turns to the phenomenological writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger. Their insights into space and time bring the natural world to life in a manner well-suited to the dynamic phenomena of contemporary physics. In aligning continental thought with problems in physics and cosmology, the book makes use of topology . Phenomenological intuitions about space and time are systematically fleshed out via an unconventional and innovative approach to this qualitative branch of mathematics. The author''s pioneering work in topological phenomenology is applied to such topics as quantum gravity, cosmogony, symmetry, spin, vorticity, dimension theory, Kaluza-Klein and string theories, fermion-boson interrelatedness, hypernumbers, and the mind-matter interface. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction Individuation and the Quest for Unity (77 KB). Contents: Introduction: Individuation and the Quest for Unity; The Obstacle to Unification in Modern Physics; The Phenomenological Challenge to the Classical Formula; Topological Phenomenology; The Dimensional Family of Topological Spinors; Basic Principles of Dimensional Transformation; Waves Carrying Waves: The Co-Evolution of Lifeworlds; The Forces of Nature; Cosmogony, Symmetry, and Phenomenological Intuition; The Self-Evolving Cosmos; The Psychophysics of Cosmogony. Readership: Philosophically-oriented readers drawn to current developments in physics and cosmology. For academics and scientists dealing with the foundations of physics, the philosophy of science in general, and or contemporary phenomenological thought.