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Space, time, and science / Raimon Panikkar ; edited by Milena Carrara Pavan.
Van Pelt Library BL240.3 .P355 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panikkar, Raimon, 1918-2010, author.
- Series:
- Opera omnia ; volume xii
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science.
- Time--Religious aspects.
- Time.
- Space--Religious aspects.
- Space.
- Space and time--Religious aspects.
- Space and time.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Internationally renowned philosopher of religion Raimon Panikkar explores the theological and philosophical intersections of space, time, and science"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: SECTION I SPACE AND TIME
- pt. 1 ORIENT
- 1. Time and History in the Tradition of India: Kala and Karman
- Time
- Time as the Fruit of Ritual Action
- Time as a Cosmic Power
- Time as an Absolute Principle: Fate
- Time as a Power of God
- Time Devoid of Real Power
- Linguistic Hermeneutics
- The Interiorization and Transcending of Time
- History
- Karman and the Historical Dimension of Man
- Myth and History: Itihasa and Purana
- Reintegration of History
- 2. Toward a Typology of Time and Temporality in the Ancient Indic Tradition
- 3. Time and Sacrifice: The Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Time Sacrificed
- A Human Invariant: The Tension between the Eternal and the Temporal
- Ways of Handling the Tension
- Sacrifice as a Universal Means of Handling Tension
- A Small Phenomenology of Sacrifice
- The Vedic Conception of Sacrifice
- The Christian Conception of Sacrifice
- The Sacrifice of Time
- The Sacrifices of Time
- The A-Temporal Nature of the Temporal Act of Consciousness
- The Three Ways of Overcoming Time
- Jnanamarga
- Bhaktimarga
- Karmamarga
- The Modern Secular Sacrifice
- The Sacredness of Secular Work
- The Secular Sacrifice
- The Sacrifice of the Secular
- pt. 2 WEST
- 1. Circular Time: Temporization and Temporality
- Socio-Theological Interlude
- Phenomenological Approximation
- The Time of Waiting
- Wasted Time
- Accelerated Time
- The Circular Nature of Time
- The Circumference Is Undefined
- The Center Is Indistinct
- The Circle Is Limited
- The Theosociological Question
- Negative Answers
- Positive Answers
- The Theological Problem
- Historical-Religious Reflection
- 2. Kalasakti: The Power of Time
- The Awareness of Time
- "Phenomenology" of Time
- Time Is the Life of Being
- Calendar Time
- Chronological Time
- Ontological Time
- 3. The End of History: The Threefold Structure of Human Time-Consciousness
- Introductory Remarks
- Methodological Reflection
- The Subject Matter: Man
- The Human Scale: The Astrological Rhythm
- The Crossing of the Human Ways: A Threefold Typology
- Nonhistorical Consciousness
- Historical Consciousness
- The Crisis of History
- Transhistorical Consciousness
- Postscript
- 4. The Mirage of the Future
- "The Future Is Ours"
- The "Incarnation" of Heaven?
- Futurology Shapes the Future
- A Future without Me?
- 5. The Future Does Not Come Later
- 6. Sacred Space is the Real Space
- An Open Gate: Symbol of Potentiality, Universal Receptacle
- A Closed Gate: The Modern Fragmentation of Knowledge
- The Gate on the Right: Three Different Philosophical Insights
- The Gate on the Left: An Effort at Integration
- The Rear Entrance: The Architectonic Science
- The Front Gate: Space as Human Landscape
- The Upper Gate: Sacred Space, the Real Space
- The Inferior Gate: Space as the Extension of Existence
- The Advaitic Experience of Space
- SECTION II SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- 1. MAX PLANCK (1858-1947)
- The Man
- The Milieu
- The Gestation of the Discovery
- The "Quantum" of Action, a Universal Constant
- Quantum Physics
- Causality
- His Life's Work
- 2. Ontonomy of Science
- Introduction: The Atom of Time
- Contents of Ontonomy of Science
- 3. The Narrow Door of Knowledge: Sense, Reason, and Faith
- Preface
- Scientific Thought and Christian Thought: Phenomenological Reflection
- Modern Science
- Christian Theology
- Encounter or Disencounter?
- Physics and Theophysics: Philosophical Reflection
- Theophysics
- The Origin of the Cosmos
- Substantial Thought and Functional Thought
- The Limits of Science and of Knowledge: A Critical Reflection
- Science Is Neither Neutral nor Universal
- Science and Parascience
- Science and Knowledge
- Epilogue
- 4. The Ambiguity of Science
- Relativizing Science
- Technique and Technology
- Going beyond Scientific Knowledge
- The Ambiguous Relationship between Science and Cosmology
- The Internal Limits of Scientific Knowledge
- Observation, Experiment, Experience
- The Classifier Is Not in the Classification
- 5. Technocentrism: Some Theses on Technology
- Intracultural Reflections
- Mutation
- -There Is an Essential Difference between Traditional Technique and Contemporary Technology
- Technological Civilization
- -Technology Is More Than Applied Science
- Technocracy as the Specific (Dominant?) Character of Contemporary Western Civilization
- Cross-Cultural Questions
- Technocentrism
- -Technology Is Not Universalizable as If It Were a Cultural Invariant
- Ontonomy Is Impossible
- -Technology Is Autonomous, It Is Independent Both of Man and Nature
- Primacy of the Machine
- -Technology Depends on a Mechanical and Gravitational World
- Anthropocentrism
- -Technology Presupposes That Man Is Essentially Different from, and Superior to, Nature
- Interventionism
- -The Method Proper to Technology Is Experimentation
- Objectivism
- -Technology Presupposes that Reality Is Objectifiable and Thus Subject to Thought
- Interchangeability
- -Space and Time in Technology Are Independent of Human Space and Time
- Anti-Animism
- -The Inertia of Matter
- Nominalism
- -Science Presupposes an Epistemological Nominalism, and Technology an Ontological Nominalism
- Quantifiability
- Technology Makes Sense Only in a Quantifiable Universe
- Control
- -The Epistemological Mood of Technology Is One of Knowledge as Power
- Instrumentation
- -Technology Is the World of Means
- 6. Emancipation From Technology
- The Thesis
- Development
- The Symbol of People's Well-Being and the Perfection of the Human Person
- The Modern Western Model of Human Fulfillment
- The Utilization of Modern Technology
- Some Options
- Development to the Utmost
- Mitigated Development
- Emancipation from Technology
- The Technological Universe
- Milestones for Emancipation
- New Wisdom
- 7. Cosmic Evolution: Human History and Trinitarian Life
- Evolution
- Human History
- Trinitarian Life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Panikkar, Raimon, 1918-2010. Space, time, and science.
- ISBN:
- 9781626984967
- 1626984964
- OCLC:
- 1319834417
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