Environmental plutonium — creation of the universe to twenty-first century mankind

2001 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Universe

Imagining Sound as the Absolute

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Saam Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
The Universe

Saam Trivedi ponders the Sangita Ratnakara by the Ayurveda physician Sarangadeva. In this thirteenth-century manuscript, Sarangadeva asserts that Sound, identical to the Absolute, is the only fundamental thing in the universe and that all other things are illusory or, at best, some derivative or other manifestation of Sound. While the twenty-first century, non-monist Trivedi is critical of this claim, he finds much to be fascinated by, and, in his dissection of the main points of the Sangita Ratnakara, he offers the reader an imagining of sonic monism that, while far-removed from the orthodoxy of today’s acoustics and natural sciences, might one day come to be seen as inspiration for the latest scientific ideas concerning sound.

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Restall ◽  
Amara Solari
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
City States ◽  
The Universe

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction examines the history and evolution of Maya civilization, explaining Maya polities or city-states, artistic expression, and ways of understanding the universe. Study of the Maya has tended to focus on the 2,000 years of history prior to contact with Europeans, and romantic ideas of discovery and disappearance have shaped popular myths about the Maya. However, they neither disappeared at the close of the Classic era nor were completely conquered by Europeans. Independent Maya kingdoms continued until the seventeenth century, and while none exists today, it is still possible to talk about a Maya world and Maya civilization in the twenty-first century.

Margaret Cavendish

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cunning
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
First Century ◽  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Universe

Margaret Cavendish, a seventeenth-century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist, went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and in many cases arguably got the better of them, but she did not have the platform that she would have had in the twenty-first century. She took a creative and systematic stand on the major questions of philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. She defends a number of theses across her corpus: for example, that human beings and all other members of the created universe are wholly material; that matter is eternal; that the universe is a plenum of contiguous bodies; that matter is generally speaking knowledgeable and perceptive and that non-human creatures like spiders, plants, and cells exhibit wisdom and skill; that motion is never transferred from one body to another, but bodies always move by motions that are internal to them; that sensory perception is not via impressions or stamping; that we can have no ideas of immaterials; and that creatures depend for their properties and features on the behavior of the beings that surround them. Cavendish uses her fictional work to further illustrate these views, and in particular to illustrate the view that creatures depend on their surroundings for their social and political properties. For example, she crafts alternative worlds in which women are not seen as unfit for roles such as philosopher, scientist, and military general, and in which they flourish. This volume of Cavendish’s writings provides a cross-section of her interconnected writings, views, and arguments.

scholarly journals Messianic ideas in monotheistic religions

2001 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
O. Sheludchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Universe

The beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by a series of crisis phenomena in the field of social life, humanity and nature. These crises, quite naturally, require a worldview of their development and the development of prerequisites for overcoming. The mass consciousness remains the ideological and ideological stereotypes that were characteristic of the century that passed before our eyes. Along with this, the development of a new vision of the present and the future - the process is very complicated and painful. Losing the usual stereotypes, people sometimes come to the thought that with them the world perishes, the collapse of social communities may seem apocalypse of the universe in general.

Afterword : The Redefinition of the Universe and the Twenty-First-Century Water Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay J. Starkey
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
Current Water ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Insight Into

This afterword reflects on the implications of the historical study undertaken in the rest of the book for our current water crisis. Without ignoring the different contexts in which these Europeans wrote and twenty-first-century people live, it proposes that the manner in which sixteenth-century Europeans came to rethink water’s status and position vis-à-vis the earth’s can provide some insight into how twenty-first-century advocates for a different relationship between people and – at least fresh, if not all – water can perhaps awaken people’s interest and active intervention into what is already a growing global problem.

A Solution to the Combination Problem and the Future of Panpsychism

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
A. Harris
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Hard Problem ◽  
Scientific Question ◽  
Combination Problem ◽  
The Future ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Hard Problem ◽  
The Universe

This paper supports the scientific position that panpsychism is a valid category of possible resolutions to the hard problem of consciousness, and it focuses on a solution to the 'combination problem' in panpsychism. I argue for a new way of thinking about consciousness in which consciousness is not viewed in reference to subjects, and that the concept of a 'subject' is borne of the illusion of self. Therefore, we don't face a combination problem if the notion of a subject is superfluous and consciousness itself is pervasive in the form of a field. The paper is also a more general discussion about the importance of pursuing this scientific question in the twenty-first century: is consciousness a more fundamental aspect of the universe than we have previously assumed?

scholarly journals Kiprah Doktor Yusuf Qardhawi Dalam Dakwah dan Gerakan Islam serta Pemikirannya tentang Etika Ekonomi

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-148
Author(s):  
Muhammad Djakfar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
External Factor ◽  
First Century ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
Economic Ethic ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Islamic Society

The name of Dr. Yusuf Qardhawi is not unfamiliar to the Islamic society as he is a visionary, cosmopolite, and ulema (Ismamic leader) whose thought on religion has been widley used as references.He is quite phenomenal, being a very productive ulema in the universe at the end of the twentieth century up to the beginning of this twenty first century. Therefore, it would be very interesting to conduct an in-depth study on what factors or cross-lines have influenced his productivity, what role he has in the dakwah and Islamic movement, as well as what his thought on economic ethic is. It can be concluded from this discourse that Qardhawi earned his great reputation not only from his individual intellectual capability, but also from an external factor. In this case, the presence of Ikhwanul Muslimin worked as the external factor which has brought him to fame.

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