The oral tradition of the Chamula people in southern Mexico is rich and varied in its humor, detail, style, imagery, and insight. Descendants of the Ancient Maya, the Chamulas use language in a way that expresses their special understanding of the social and cosmic order to whic…
This book aims at giving the basis of primordial cosmology. The book is self-contained in the sense that all the elements for the derivations of the presented results are given. It can be used as a textbook to study cosmology. It is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 summarizes the fu…
It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We've learned a lot in those years, and planetary scientist David Grinspoon is well prepared to explore this fi…
This title features nine new essays which examine the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The contributors discuss the nature of god, his relation to the material world, fate and causation, rival cosmologies, and the ethical and religious consequ…
"Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an et…
"In this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracin…
La idea del cosmos: cosmos y música en la antigüedad
by Molina, Radamés, Ranz, Daniel
fromPaidós studio
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Un…
Did the universe begin to exist? If so, did it have a cause? Or could it have come into existence uncaused, from nothing? These questions are taken up by the medieval-though recently-revived-kalam cosmological argument, which has arguably been the most discussed philosophical ar…
The question of origins remains a stumbling block for many. But just as the Psalmist gained insight into God's character through the observation of nature, modern scientific study can deepen and enrich our vision of the Creator and our place in his creation. In this often conten…