Cosmos, Chaos, and Process in Western Thought

Towards a New Science and Existentialist Social Ethic

Omschrijving

Cosmos, Chaos, and Process is a comprehensivehistory and normative analysis of the tension betweenthe ideas of order and disorder in Western thought,as this has taken shape in philosophy, religion, andscience. Chapters with titles like Cosmos as TrueMyth, God and the Speed of Light, and 2+2 Is NotFour offer a survey of process philosophy (andanti-process philosophy) in all its various forms,from the pre-Socratics to Superstring Theory. Indoing so, the author seeks to formulate anexistential and humanistic social ethic in thetradition of Albert Camus and Karl Jaspers. Otherthinkers examined in depth include Aristotle, HenriBergson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein,Euripides, Søren Kierkegaard, Isaac Newton, ReinholdNiebuhr, Blaise Pascal, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre,Friedrich Schleiermacher, Sophocles, Max Stirner,Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred North Whitehead, and manymore.
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Schrijver
Grubic, Royce P
Titel
Cosmos, Chaos, and Process in Western Thought
Uitgever
VDM Verlag
Jaar
2009
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
608
Gewicht
921 gr
EAN
9783639042801
Afmetingen
220 x 150 x 42 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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