Eternity Between Space and Time : From Consciousness to the Cosmos / edited by Ines. Testoni [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Testoni, Ines, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Space and time--Philosophy.

Space and time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

Philosophers, theologians, physicists, and psychologists join their efforts to reflect on the crucial issues of limit and infinity, time and eternity, empty space and material space. The volume offers an invaluable contribution to some of the most important issues of our times: questions on God and consciousness are discussed in parallel with quantum theory, black holes, the inflationary universe, the Big Bang, and string theory, from different perspectives and angles, ranging from neuroscience to AI.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

First Part: What about Eternity?

The Eternity of Every Being and the "Trace" of the Infinite in the Finite According to Emanuele Severino

Emanuele Severino. Sózein tà Phainómena

The Absolute Appearing of Eternity as the Original Meaning of Time

Note on the Dialogue between Severino and Vitiello

Time, Eternity, Freedom in Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Ricoeur

Second Part: The Eternity Concealed in the Cosmos and the Secrets of Consciousness

The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

How Studying Black Hole Theory May Help Us to Quantize Gravity

Uncertainty Principle and Gravity

The Big Bang's New Clothes and Eternity

For a Science of Consciousness

Freedom and Artificial Intelligence

Brain, Mind, the Arrow of Time and Consciousness

Third Part: Eternity, Time and Faith

The Eighth Day. Biblical Time as Openness of Chronological Time

Time, Revelation or Negation of the Eternal? The Modern Metaphor of the "Death of God"

Cosmology and Cosmologhia: A Much Needed Distinction

God and the Big Bang: Past and Modern Debates between Science and Theology

"Qu'est-ce qu'un homme, dans l'infini?". Eternity and Infinity in Blaise Pascal and in the 17th-Century Geometrizing Ontologies

Eternity and Otherness from the Perspective of Dialogic Thinking. Inspirations and Contaminations in and from Romano Guardini, Franz Rosenzweig, and Nishida Kitarō

Fourth Part: Existential Corollaries

Eternity, Instant, Duration. Tangere aeternum

Finitude and Project: For Which Space? And for What Time?

The Last Waltz: Finitude, Loneliness and Exiting from Life

Beyond the Limits of Mental Illness: Dignity and Dignity Therapy in Person- Centered Psychiatry

Beyond Alienation: Severino's Removal of Pathological Contradiction

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ISBN:

9783111313610

3111313611