Cosmos, Chaos, and Process in Western Thought

ISBN-13: 9783639042801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 608 str.

Royce P. Grubic

Opis

"Cosmos, Chaos, and Process" is a comprehensivehistory and normative analysis of the tension betweenthe ideas of order and disorder in Western thought,as this has taken shape in philosophy, religion, andscience. Chapters with titles like "Cosmos as TrueMyth," "God and the Speed of Light," and "2+2 Is NotFour" offer a survey of process philosophy (andanti-process philosophy) in all its various forms,from the pre-Socratics to Superstring Theory. Indoing so, the author seeks to formulate anexistential and humanistic social ethic in thetradition of Albert Camus and Karl Jaspers. Otherthinkers examined in depth include Aristotle, HenriBergson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein,Euripides, Søren Kierkegaard, Isaac Newton, ReinholdNiebuhr, Blaise Pascal, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre,Friedrich Schleiermacher, Sophocles, Max Stirner,Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred North Whitehead, and manymore.

O autorze

A specialist in the history of ideas and philosophy of religion,
Royce P. Grubic has a PhD in Religion and Social Ethics from the
University of Southern California, an M.A. in History from the
University of Richmond, and a B.A. in History from UC-Santa
Barbara. He has taught at USC, Whittier College and, since 2005,
at Washington State University.