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#cosmos
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Astrology and morality
Astrology and the Like.—It is presumable that the objects of the religious, moral, aesthetic and logical notions pertain simply to the superficialities of things, although man flatters himself with the thought that here at least he is getting to the heart of the cosmos. [...]…
Language causes metaphysics
Language as a Presumptive Science.—The importance of language in the development of civilization consists in the fact that by means of it man placed one world, his own, alongside another, a place of leverage that he thought so firm as to admit of his turning the rest of the…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Mono: cosa e creatura insieme
La parola mono, «cosa», significa anche creatura. Nel pensiero nipponico non si profila una netta linea di demarcazione tra gli oggetti e le creature viventi. Il cosmo è una struttura compatta, unitaria e ben organizzata, dove ogni elemento partecipa dell’insieme. È una…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)
Pythagorean numbers and the music of the spheres
Pythagorean doctrines were bound by an oath of secrecy, so we know very little prior to the version of them that appears in Plato. These include a belief in the immortality and transmigration of the soul and the view that the ultimate reality of the universe consists in number…