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Eternity Between Space and Time : From Consciousness to the Cosmos / ed. by Ines Testoni, Fabio Scardigli, Andrea Toniolo, Gabriele Gionti S.J.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (X, 296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111312842
  • 9783111314082
  • 9783111313610
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Names -- Concepts
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.

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Names -- Concepts

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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