Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment Passions of the Skies [Hardcover]

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 sciences 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 existenceaccord with the phenomenology/ontopoiesis of life within the logos-prompted primogenital stream of becoming and action, which points to a future of progressing culture.

This volume presents astronomy as the fulcrum of the sciences, giving full expression to the human passion for the skies. It illustrates how the interplay between human beings and the celestial realm has informed civilizational trends.

THEME:GEO-COSMIC HORIZONS OF THE LOGOS OF LIFEAnna-Teresa TymienieckaSECTION I: ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY FLOURISHING IN THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENTAstrobiology, theoretical biology, quantum physics, history of science, philosophy of scienceTHE NEW ENLIGHTENMENT: COSMO-TRANSCENDENTAL POSITIONING OF THE LIVING BEING IN THE UNIVERSEAnna-Teresa TymienieckaON THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF BIOLOGY AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSAL SCIENCEAttila GrandpierreTHE RELATION BETWEEN MAN AND WORLDHans K?chlerOBSERVERS, FREEDOM, AND THE COSMOSSubhash KakTHE ENCHANTING HEAVENSFrances ClynesTHE SCIENCE OF WHOLENESSMenas KafatosSECTION II: COSMOS SHAPING WORLD VIEWSHistory of science, philosophy of scienceCATHEDRALS AS OBSERVATORIES; MERIDIANAE IN ITALYB?lalÓ: