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1 online resource (xxiii, 454 pages) |
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TABLES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CONTENTS; PART ONE Introduction; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE AWE OF THE UNIVERSE; The Euphoric Framing of a Worldview; Cosmology vs. Cosmogony; The Different Conceptions of the Universe; Some Deep Questions in Cosmology; The Theoretical Debate; The Scientific Argument; The Religious Argument; The Metaphysical Argument; The Esoteric Argument; The Post-Cosmological Argument; The Theory of Post-Cosmology; Theory and Meta-Theory; A Unified Theory of Everything; The Logic of Existential Dialectics |
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The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; PART TWO The Contested Beginnings; CHAPTER 2 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CONTESTED BEGINNINGS; The Persuasion of Its Contested Beginnings; Its Contested Beginnings-and the Mind; Acosmism, and the Illusion in the Creation of the Universe; Idealism, the Mind, and the Problem of Universals; Its Contested Beginnings-and Nature |
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The Big Bang Theory, and the Pre-Big Bang AlternativesIts Contested Beginnings-and Society; Earth-Centric Cosmology, and the Politics of the Church; Correlative Cosmology, and Empire Building; Its Contested Beginnings-and Culture; Theology, and the Cosmological Argument; Hylomorphism, Ethics, and the Teleology of the Universe; The Questionability of Its Contested Beginnings; PART THREE The Speculative Ends; CHAPTER 3 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SPECULATIVE ENDS; The Wonder of Its Speculative Ends; Its Speculative Ends-and the Mind; Involution, the Mind, and the Cosmic Return to the Absolute |
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The Esoteric Seven, and the Spiritual Evolution of the UniverseIts Speculative Ends-and Nature; The Scientific Debate about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe; Its Speculative Ends-and Society; Heaven's Gate, the End of the Earth, and Cult Suicide; MRTCG, Apocalypticism, and Doomsday Deaths; Its Speculative Ends-and Culture; Eschatology, the End of the World, and Religion; The Controversy of Its Speculative Ends; PART FOUR Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY; Beyond the Contested Beginnings and the Speculative Ends; Other Relevant Principles |
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1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle; 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle; 4rd Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle; 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle; 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle; 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle; 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle; 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle; 10th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle; 11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle |
| Summary |
Annotation This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of the universe, especially in relation to its contested beginnings and speculative ends¿while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to transcend the existing approaches in the literature on cosmology in a way not conceived before |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-419) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- Philosophy
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Cosmology.
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cosmology.
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
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Cosmology -- Philosophy
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Kosmologie.
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Philosophie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781907343117 |
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1907343113 |
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1907343105 |
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9781907343100 |
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