Description
In "The New Philosophy of Universalism", Nicholas Hagger presents a new philosophy focusing on an up-to-date view of the universe and its bio-friendly, orderly rather than random, structure. At the origin of Western civilization, philosophy reflected the One universe and man's position in it. The last 350 years of increasing materialism and reductionism have fragmented the universe. In the 20th century philosophy preferred to focus on logic and language and has become increasingly irrelevant. Now a new philosophy, Universalism, takes philosophy back to its original aim: focus on the universe - the universe known to contemporary cosmologists, astrophysicists, physicists, biologists and geologists, who identify systems of order as well as randomness.Reflecting the most up-to-date scientific evidence for what the universe is, "Universalism" focuses on cosmological bio-friendliness and the universal principle of order, and reconnects philosophy to the metaphysical tradition rejected by the Vienna Circle. A systematic philosophy of the expanding universe, Nature and man, "Universalism" identifies a Law of Order that counterbalances a Law of Randomness and offers a new philosophy that has global applications.
About the Author
Nicholas Hagger was exposed to linguistic philosophy at Oxford. He has researched this work for many years and led a group of Universalist philosophers in the early 1990s. Some of his 30 books consider the border between philosophy and science.
Reviews
The scope of Hagger's book is immense. Universalism is a call to a philosopher to abandon the specialisms (in particular logic and language) and to attempt, once again, the kind of Grand Unified Theory of Everything that has marked the discipline from the beginning. Universalism has the potentiality to be as potent a movement in the 21st century as Existentialism was in the post-war world. Christopher Macann, Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bordeaux, author of Being and Becoming
Book Information
ISBN 9781846941849
Author Nicholas Hagger
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint John Hunt Publishing
Publisher Collective Ink
Weight(grams) 868g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 156mm * 38mm
About the Author
Nicholas Hagger was exposed to linguistic philosophy at Oxford. He has researched this work for many years and led a group of Universalist philosophers in the early 1990s. Some of his 30 books consider the border between philosophy and science.
Reviews
The scope of Hagger's book is immense. Universalism is a call to a philosopher to abandon the specialisms (in particular logic and language) and to attempt, once again, the kind of Grand Unified Theory of Everything that has marked the discipline from the beginning. Universalism has the potentiality to be as potent a movement in the 21st century as Existentialism was in the post-war world. Christopher Macann, Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bordeaux, author of Being and Becoming
Book Information
ISBN 9781846941849
Author Nicholas Hagger
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint John Hunt Publishing
Publisher Collective Ink
Weight(grams) 868g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 156mm * 38mm
