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"Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nicolescu, Basarab
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.
Colección:SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Temas:
Reality.
Complexity (Philosophy)
Religion and science.
Réalité.
Complexité (Philosophie)
Religion et sciences.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Reality
Religion and science
Komplexität
Spiritualität
Wirklichkeit
Wissenschaft
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 From Shattered Culture Toward Transculture 3
  • The Christian Origin of Modem Science 3
  • Do Science and Culture Have Something in Common? 7
  • The Transcultural and the Mirror of the Other 10
  • The Transreligious Attitude and the Presence of the Sacred 14
  • Chapter 2 Contemporary Physics and the Western Tradition 19
  • Tradition and Traditions 19
  • Science and Tradition: Two Poles of a Contradiction 20
  • A Possible Bridge between Sciences and Tradition: The Rationality of the World 23
  • Describing God's Being ... 24
  • Movement and Discontinuity: The Eternal Genesis of Reality 26
  • Scientific Thinking and Symbolic Thinking: Icons and Thêmata 30
  • A Necessary Encounter 34
  • Chapter 3 The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism 37
  • The Classical Vision of the World and the Death of Man 37
  • Modem Mahabharata-like Drama: The Quantum Vision of the World 40
  • Chapter 4 The Valley of Astonishment: The Quantum World 45
  • About the Difficulties of the Journey 45
  • Planck, Discontinuity, and the Quantum Revolution 47
  • The Particle and Quantum Spontaneity 50
  • Heisenberg's Relations and the Failure of Classic Determinism 52
  • The Multiplicity of Quantum Values and the Role of Observation 53
  • Quantum Vacuum: A Full Vacuum 54
  • Quantum Nonseparability 56
  • Chapter 5 The Endless Route of the Unification of the World 59
  • Is a Single Energy the Source of the World's Diversity? 59
  • The Final Theory: Superstrings? 62
  • The Unification of Heaven and Earth 63
  • Can Everything Be Unified? 65
  • Everything Is Vibration 66
  • The Mystery Theorists 70
  • Seekers of Truth 71
  • Chapter 6 The Strange Fourth Dimension 75
  • Chapter 7 The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of Our World 87
  • Eddington and the Epistemological Principles 87
  • Unity and Self-Consistency: The Bootstrap Principle 88
  • Is There a Nuclear Democracy? 91
  • The Bootstrap and the Anthropic Principle 92
  • Methodological Considerations 95
  • Chapter 8 Complexity and Reality 99
  • The Emergence of Complex Plurality 99
  • Some Reflections on Systemic Thinking 101
  • Systemic Thinking and Quantum Physics 102
  • Levels of Reality 104
  • Is There a Cosmic Bootstrap? 107
  • Evolution and Involution 110
  • Chapter 9 The Human Being: The Most Perfect of All Signs 113
  • Natural Language and Scientific Language 113
  • Peirce and Spontaneity 114
  • Invariance and Thirdness 116
  • The Possibility of a Universal Language 118
  • Chapter 10 Beyond Dualism 121
  • A Stick Always Has Two Ends 121
  • Stéphane Lupasco (1900-1988): The Herald of the Coming Third 125
  • The Included Third 127
  • The Ternary Dialectics of Reality 128
  • Triadic Systemogenesis and the Three Matters 130
  • Nonseparability and the Unity of the World 131
  • The Nature of Space-Time 131
  • Is Lupasco a Prophet of the Irrational? 132
  • The Experienced Third 134
  • Chapter 11 The Psychophysical Problem 137
  • Reduction and Reductionism 137
  • The Coincidentia Oppositorum and Hermetic Irrationalism 138
  • The Core of the Problem: We Are Too Deeply Immersed in the Seventeenth Century 139
  • The Most Important Task of Our Time: A New Idea about Reality 142
  • New Perspectives in the Ternary-Qua ternary Debate 142
  • Umberto Eco's Logical and Epistemological Error 144
  • Chapter 12 From the Quantum World to Ionesco's Antitheater And Quantum Aesthetics 147
  • For a Yes or for a No 147
  • Ionesco and the Non-Aristotelian Theater 148
  • Gregorio Morales: Quantum Aesthetics and Quantum Theater 151
  • Chapter 13 The Theater of Peter Brook as a Field of Study of Energy Movement and Interrelations 155
  • Chapter 14 From Contemporary Science to the World of Art 167
  • André Breton and the Logic of Contradiction 167
  • Georges Mathieu and Aristotle's Cage 169
  • Salvador Dali and Nuclear Mysticism 170
  • Frédéric Benrath, Karel Appel, and René Huyghe 174
  • Chapter 15 Vision of Reality and Reality of Vision 177
  • Poincaré and Sudden Enlightenment 178
  • Hadamard and Thinking without Words 180
  • Kepler and the Living Earth 182
  • Bohr and Complementarity 184
  • Understanding the Reality of the Imaginary: The Imaginary and the Imaginal 186
  • Chapter 16 Can Science Be a Religion? 189
  • The Clowns of the Impossible 189
  • Highlights of the New Barbarity 190
  • Between the Anecdote and the Unspeakable 191
  • The Sokal Affair Beyond Three Extremisms 193
  • A Necessary isomorphism 197
  • The End of Science? 198
  • The Spiritual Dimension of Democracy: Utopia or Necessity? 199
  • Chapter 17 The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being 203
  • Premodernity, Modernity, Postmodernity, and Cosmodernity as Different Visions of the Relation between the Subject and the Object 203
  • Ladder of Divine Ascent and Levels of Being 205
  • Toward a Unified Theory of Levels of Reality 207
  • At the Threshold of New Renaissance 214.

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