Concept
Cosmology
Overview
scientific study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe
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The object of Cosmology comprised not merely Nature, but Mind too, in its external complication in its phenomenon--in fact, existence in general, or the sum of finite things. This object however it viewed not as a concrete whole, but only under certain abstract points of view. Thus the questions Cosmology attempted to solve were such as these: Is accident or necessity dominant in the world?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Names Cosmology twice; opens on Cosmology.
The World has, as to Time and Space, a Beginning (limit). Antithesis. The World is, as to Time and Space, infinite. Thesis. Everything in the World consists of [elements that are] simple. Antithesis. There is nothing simple, but everything is composite. Thesis. There are in the World Causes through Freedom. Antithesis.
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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There are also shorter waves of thought, which play on the surface of the tidal movement. We shall find, therefore, transformations in the European outlook, slowly modifying the successive centuries. There persists, however, throughout the whole period the fixed scientific cosmology which presupposes the ultimate fact of an irreducible brute matter, or material, spread throughout space in a flux of configurations…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
Names Cosmology twice; opens on Cosmology.
Philosophers who discussed Cosmology
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Anaximander
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Giordano Bruno
- Henri Bergson
- Ludwig Büchner
- Heraclitus
- Mulla Sadra
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Kurt Gödel
- Leucippus
- William of Conches
- Cheng Hao
- Hermann Lotze
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Ibn Arabi
- Alcmaeon of Croton
- Zhou Dunyi
- Christopher Hitchens
- Parmenides
- Titus Burckhardt
- René Descartes
- Henry Corbin
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Encyclopédie
- Celestial mechanics
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Bhagavata Purana
- Washington, D.C.
- Genesis creation narrative
- Anaximander
- General relativity
- Philosophy of physics
- Giordano Bruno
- Philosophy
- Heaven
- Deferent and epicycle
- Italy
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Al-Ghazali
- Almagest
- Johannes Kepler
- National Science Foundation
- Jainism
- Hylomorphism
- William Gilbert (physicist)
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Narrower topics:
- Almagest
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Astronomer
- Astrophysics
- Babylonian astronomy
- Belgium
- Bhagavata Purana
- Big Bang
- Celestial mechanics
- Celestial sphere
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Copernican principle
- Cosmic inflation
- Creation myth
- Creationism
- Dark energy
- Dark matter
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Deferent and epicycle
- Demiurge
- Earth's rotation
- Entropy
- Eschatology
- Eudoxus of Cnidus