Beyond cosmology to post-cosmology / Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Cosmogony.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of the universe, especially in relation to its contested beginnings and speculative ends-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). This book offers a new theory to transcend the existing approaches in the literature on cosmology in a way not conceived before

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

TABLES

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE Introduction

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION-THE AWE OF THE UNIVERSE

The Euphoric Framing of a Worldview

Cosmology vs. Cosmogony

The Different Conceptions of the Universe

Some Deep Questions in Cosmology

The Theoretical Debate

The Scientific Argument

The Religious Argument

The Metaphysical Argument

The Esoteric Argument

The Post-Cosmological Argument

The Theory of Post-Cosmology

Theory and Meta-Theory

A Unified Theory of Everything

The Logic of Existential Dialectics

The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics)

The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic)

The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics)

Sophisticated Methodological Holism

Chapter Outline

Some Clarifications

PART TWO The Contested Beginnings

CHAPTER 2 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CONTESTED BEGINNINGS

The Persuasion of Its Contested Beginnings

Its Contested Beginnings-and the Mind

Acosmism, and the Illusion in the Creation of the Universe

Idealism, the Mind, and the Problem of Universals

Its Contested Beginnings-and Nature

The Big Bang Theory, and the Pre-Big Bang Alternatives

Its Contested Beginnings-and Society

Earth-Centric Cosmology, and the Politics of the Church

Correlative Cosmology, and Empire Building

Its Contested Beginnings-and Culture

Theology, and the Cosmological Argument

Hylomorphism, Ethics, and the Teleology of the Universe

The Questionability of Its Contested Beginnings

PART THREE The Speculative Ends

CHAPTER 3 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SPECULATIVE ENDS

The Wonder of Its Speculative Ends

Its Speculative Ends-and the Mind

Involution, the Mind, and the Cosmic Return to the Absolute.

The Esoteric Seven, and the Spiritual Evolution of the Universe

Its Speculative Ends-and Nature

The Scientific Debate about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe

Its Speculative Ends-and Society

Heaven's Gate, the End of the Earth, and Cult Suicide

MRTCG, Apocalypticism, and Doomsday Deaths

Its Speculative Ends-and Culture

Eschatology, the End of the World, and Religion

The Controversy of Its Speculative Ends

PART FOUR Conclusion

CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY

Beyond the Contested Beginnings and the Speculative Ends

Other Relevant Principles

1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle

2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle

3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle

4rd Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle

5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle

6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle

7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle

8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle

9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle

10th Thesis: The Convention-3ovelty Principle

11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle

12th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle

13th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle

14th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle

15th Thesis: The Post-Human Odyssey

Towards Post-Cosmology

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-01219-7

9786613012197

1-907343-11-3

OCLC:

715163803