Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment: by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Attila Grandpierre PDF

By Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Attila Grandpierre

ISBN-10: 9048197473

ISBN-13: 9789048197477

ISBN-10: 940073431X

ISBN-13: 9789400734319

This quantity represents the 1st which interfaces with astronomy because the fulcrum of the sciences. It offers complete expression to the human ardour for the skies. Advancing human civilization has opened up and matured this ardour into the excellent technology of astronomy. Advancing science’s quest for the 1st ideas of life meets the ontopoietic generative emblems of lifestyles, the point of interest of the recent Enlightenment. It provides a variety of views illustrating how the interaction among humans and the celestial realm has trained civilizational traits. students and philosophers debate in physics and biology, the findings of that are commencing a extra inclusive, wider photo of the universe. different versions of the common order and of existence right here offered, all aiming on the first rules of existence—accord with the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of existence in the logos-prompted primogenital move of changing into and motion, which issues to a way forward for progressing culture.

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