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Matter and Meaning : Is Matter Sacred or Profane?.
We live in a material world. But what is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself, or can any meaning it possesses only be invested in it by human beings? To what extent might these semantic activities overlap? How have our current understandings of matter and meaningdeveloped from th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We live in a material world. But what is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself, or can any meaning it possesses only be invested in it by human beings? To what extent might these semantic activities overlap? How have our current understandings of matter and meaningdeveloped from those of past thinkers, in both Western and non-Western contexts? These and many other questions were addressed at a conference held under the auspices of the Science and Religion Forum at Liverpool ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443820288 1443820288 9781443819077 1443819077 9786612588341 6612588349 |