Concept
Cosmogony
Overview
branch of science or a theory concerning the origin of the universe
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Phys. 25, p. 510), likewise called the stars “wheel-shaped with fire-filled wrappings of air.” This Cosmogony is as good as the geological hypothesis of the earth-crust which burst open, or as Buffon’s explosion of the sun, which beginning, on the other hand, with the sun, makes the planets to be stones projected from it. While the ancients confined the stars to our atmosphere, and made the sun first proceed from…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Cosmogony is; names Cosmogony twice.
They induce a live consciousness of the terrors of chaos, not only by their size and strength but often also by their grotesque, half-animal, half-human forms, by their many heads or hundreds of arms. Obviously these Titans, giants, Cyclopes, and other terrible beings of cosmogony are the direct descendants of the weather demons who anteceded the gods. Does not the idea of a world-catastrophe that prepares the way…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
States what Cosmogony is; names Cosmogony.
The mechanical theory of heat of our time has fixed the origin of the earlier condition of the universe with much greater precision. In spite of all this "the universal condition of the gaseous form can only be a point of departure for serious conclusions if one can define the mechanical system of it more precisely beforehand.
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
Close in meaning to Cosmogony; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Cosmogony
- Anaximander
- Hesiod
- Mircea Eliade
- Simone Weil
- Ludwig Klages
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Laozi
- Epimenides
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Robert Grosseteste
- Empedocles
- Shao Yong
- Prima materia
- Franciscus Patricius
- Atticus (philosopher)
- Ionel Gherea
Related ideas
- Mircea Eliade
- Creatio ex nihilo
- Scientific theory
- Greek mythology
- Roman mythology
- Taoism
- Empirical evidence
- Homogeneity and heterogeneity
- Universe
- Personhood
- Zeus
- Symbol
- Cosmos
- Big Bang
- Deity
- Oxford University Press
- Physical cosmology
- Cosmic inflation
- Cosmological argument
- Ancient Greece
- Chaos (cosmogony)
- Creation myth
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximander.