Concept
Cosmos
Overview
The cosmos (, US also ; Ancient Greek: κόσμος, romanized: kósmos) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order. Usage of the word cosmos implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity.
The cosmos is studied in cosmology – a broad discipline covering scientific, religious or philosophical aspects of the cosmos and its nature. Religious and philosophical approaches may include the cosmos among spiritual entities or other matters deemed to exist outside the physical universe.
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We know the present theories of the Cosmos according to the modern astronomers and physicists, and at the same time we know how wofully they hurt the old school of theologians, and how every new scientific discovery that is made is as a bomb thrown into their house, and how they have attempted in every age to put down all these researches. In the first place, let us go over the psychological and scientific ideas of…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
States what Cosmos is; opens on Cosmos.
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
Close in meaning to Cosmos; the term itself is not named.
In order to explain it let us consider for a moment what is called the reign of law. People often speak as though it were a remarkable fact that the physical world is subject to invariable laws.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
States what Cosmos is; the author is tied to Cosmos in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Cosmos
- Anaxagoras
- Leucippus
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Michel Weber
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Michel Foucault
- Ernst Cassirer
- Edgar Morin
- D. H. Th. Vollenhoven
Related ideas
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Anaximander
- Hindus
- Philosophy
- Yin and yang
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Anaxagoras
- Cosmology
- Metaphysics
- Plato
- Pythagoras
- Neoplatonism
- Ptolemy
- Philolaus
- Observable universe
- Socrates
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Australian National University
- Spacetime
- Pythagoreanism
- Scientific Revolution
- Thales of Miletus
- The New York Times
- Aristotle
Opposing perspectives
- Process philosophy
- World
- Afterlife
- New Testament
- Christian theology
- Theology
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Christendom
- Creation myth
- World to come
- Geocentrism
- Aeon
- Kenoma
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.