Concept
Universe
Overview
totality consisting of space, time, matter and energy
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The whole universe is One. There is only One Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it is passing through the forms of time, space and causation, is called _buddhi_, fine matter, gross matter, etc. All physical and mental forms, everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various ways. When a little bit of it gets into this network of time, space and causation, it apparently…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
Names Universe several times; states what Universe is.
Existence beyond the boundary line of our horizon is an open question. The real unity of the universe consists in its materiality, and this is established, not by a pair of juggling phrases but by means of a long and difficult development of philosophy and natural science. With respect to the subject in hand; the existence which Herr Duehring presents to us is "not that pure existence which is self sufficient and…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
Names Universe several times; states what Universe is.
This belief is sometimes advanced dogmatically, while at other times it is defended by certain logical arguments. If it is true, every part of the universe is a microcosm, a miniature reflection of the whole. If we knew ourselves thoroughly, according to this doctrine, we should know everything.
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
Names Universe several times; states what Universe is.
Philosophers who discussed Universe
- Heraclitus
- Xenocrates
- Diogenes of Apollonia
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Philolaus
- Richard Dawkins
- Jean Bodin
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Baruch Spinoza
- Zeno of Citium
- Chrysippus
- Plotinus
- Tyler Burge
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Islam
- Strato of Lampsacus
- Democritus
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Wang Chong
- Louis de Bonald
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Srinivasacharya
- Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
Related ideas
- Fundamental interaction
- Force
- Fractal
- Udayana
- Genesis creation narrative
- Elementary particle
- Flat Earth
- Anaximander
- German language
- General relativity
- Harvard University Press
- Goddess
- Dignāga
- Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- History of India
- Abrahamic religions
- Zeno of Elea
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Al-Ghazali
- Planck (spacecraft)
- Judaism
- Jainism
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Absolute value
- Ancient Greek astronomy
- Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
- Comet
- Drag (physics)
- Fourier series
- Fractal
- Heat
- Physical constant
- Seleucus of Seleucia
- TalkOrigins Archive
- The Sand Reckoner
- Tide
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
- Thomas Digges
- Ali Qushji
- Edmond Halley
- Phase (matter)
- Drake equation
- Stellar parallax
- Fine-tuned universe
- Lucio Russo
- Retrograde and prograde motion
- History of astronomy