Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment
Passions of the Skies
Samenvatting
This volume represents the first which interfaces with astronomy as the fulcrum of the sciences. It gives full expression to the human passion for the skies. Advancing human civilization has unfolded and matured this passion into the comprehensive science of astronomy. Advancing science’s quest for the first principles of existence meets the ontopoietic generative logos of life, the focal point of the New Enlightenment. It presents numerous perspectives illustrating how the interplay between human beings and the celestial realm has informed civilizational trends. Scholars and philosophers debate in physics and biology, the findings of which are opening a more inclusive, wider picture of the universe. The different models of the universal order and of life here presented, all aiming at the first principles of existence—accord with the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life within the logos-prompted primogenital stream of becoming and action, which points to a future of progressing culture.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
GEO-COSMIC HORIZONS OF THE LOGOS OF LIFE
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
SECTION I: ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY FLOURISHING IN THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT
Astrobiology, theoretical biology, quantum physics, history of science, philosophy of science
THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT: COSMO-TRANSCENDENTAL POSITIONING OF THE LIVING BEING IN THE UNIVERSE
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ON THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF BIOLOGY AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSAL SCIENCE
Attila Grandpierre
THE RELATION BETWEEN MAN AND WORLD
Hans Köchler
OBSERVERS, FREEDOM, AND THE COSMOS
Subhash Kak
THE ENCHANTING HEAVENS
Frances Clynes
THE SCIENCE OF WHOLENESS
Menas Kafatos
SECTION II: COSMOS SHAPING WORLD VIEWS
History of science, philosophy of science
CATHEDRALS AS OBSERVATORIES; MERIDIANAE IN ITALY
Béla Kálmán
THE COSMOLOGICAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND RESULTS OF THE ANNO DOMNI INVENTION: ANNO MUNDI 6000, GREAT YEAR, PRECESSION, AND END OF THE WORLD CALCULATION
Sepp Rothwangl
COMING OF AGE UNDER THE NIGHT SKY: THE IMPORTANCE OF ASTRONOMY IN SHAPING WORLDVIEWS
Stephen P. Cook
MEDIEVAL ROOTS OF THE MODERN COSMOLOGY
Miklós Maróth
IS THERE ANY FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MAN AND THE UNIVERSE?
Vladimir A. Lefebvre
SECTION III: ASTRONOMY IN THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE
Archaeoastronomy, history of astronomy, cultural astronomy
CULTURAL IMPACTS OF ASTRONOMY
Stanislaw Iwanewski
TRIADIC INSIGHTS IN ASTRONOMY, ART AND MUSIC
Norman D. Cook
THE SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL IMPACT OF SKY LORE ON PREHISTORIC SOCIETIES IN EUROPE
Emília Pásztor
IMPACT OF ASTRONOMY IN NEPALESE CIVILIZATION
Suresh Bhattarai
IMPACT OF STARS ON HUMAN CULTURE
Varadaraja V. Raman
THE CONTRIBUTION OF MUSICAL THEORY TO AN ANCIENT CHINESE CONCEPT OF THE UNIVERSE
Alice Mary Williamson
COSMOPOLIS: HOW ASTRONOMY AFFECTS PHILOSOPHIES OF HUMAN NATURE AND RELIGION
Nancey Murphy
SECTION IV: UNIVERSE AND LIFE
Quantum physics, consciousness research, astrobiology, complexity theory
MIND IN THE QUANTUM UNIVERSE
Henry P. Stapp
WHY IS THE UNIVERSE JUST RIGHT FOR LIFE?
Paul Davies
THE COMPELLING CASE FOR PANSPERMIA
Chandra Wickramasinghe
NANOBIONTS AND THE SIZE LIMIT OF LIFE
László G. Puskás
THE MODERN THEORY OF COMPLEXITY AND THE RUSSIAN COSMISM: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Helena Knyazeva
ASTROBIOLOGY: FROM EXTREMOPHILES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS
Joseph Seckbach and Julian Chela-Flores
SECTION V: THE WORLD OF LIFE, ASTRONOMY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
History of astronomy, social sciences
ASTRONOMY AND THE SOUL
Nicholas Campion
RATIONALITY AND WONDER: FROM SCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
William R. Stoeger
POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION OF RELIGION TO COSMOLOGY
Marian Ambrozy
THE PRINCIPLE OF GREATEST HAPPINESS
Katalin Martinás
ASTRONOMY: BRIGHTEST AND MOST FASCINATING SHINING PATH FOR MANKIND FUTURE
Habibollah Minoo and S.M.T. Bathaee
A THEISTIC MODEL OF PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY
Antony P. Stone
HUMANITY EN ROUTE TO THE GLORIOUS UNITY OF OUR UNIVERSE
Ion Soteropoulos
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