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By Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (eds.)

This is a phenomenal quantity which expands upon the area Phenomenology Institute’s fresh learn: the research of the gorgeous intertwining of the skies and the cosmos with the human ambitions of philosophy, literature and the humanities. the connection of people to the cosmos is tested during the exploration of phenomenology, metaphysics and the humanities. The authors of this quantity write on numerous subject matters which all search to open the reader’s eyes to the connection of people and our notion of our position within the cosmos. This quantity deals a framework during which to give a wealthy landscape; quite a few views illustrating how the notion of the interaction among people and the celestial realm advances in universal event and worldviews. This try and discover our cosmic place is a brilliant and necessary highbrow problem. Philosophy in addition to literature and the humanities are nourished by way of this human quest for wisdom and understanding.

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Classical and avant-garde compositions were effectively mixed with abstractions from cellular, galaxies and the universal; the allegorical and experimental contributes a non-verbal language (Metz 1974) based on life-world embodied subjects and experiences. Meaningfulness is thought from a humanistic framework above theism and atheism, reconciling the unattainable in objective meaning. Even though the family is Christian and religious this is not the film’s focus becoming more amorphous and philosophical than religious as in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, 1957, that presents a Knight and Death discussing the existence of God.

Light in cosmic electromagnetic radiation guides the rules relating to the LHC experiment. Quark-gluon plasma was created in May 2011 taking us a step closer to find what was there, the densest matter besides back holes. The aim of the LHC experiment is to try to find this early existence which the film conveys more or less successfully with music and abstract images and as Emerson wrote in History connects man to the cosmos. What we mean by representation is hard to attain in any aesthetic medium since it involves the creator and the receiver, the spectator that Gadamer perceived as coming-to-representation of being: What we mean by “representation” is, at any rate, a universal ontological structural element of the aesthetic, an event of being—not an experiential event that occurs at the moment of artistic creation and is merely repeated each time in the mind of the viewer… the specific mode of the work of art’s presence is the coming-to-representation of being.

And this is why the unity of being 4 Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics, Eds. and Trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 103 and ff. 5 Metaphysics, 1071 b 24. 6 Emmanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement, A326/B330. On the Eternal Recurrence as the Ground of Holiness in the Light of Philip Gröning’s… 45 is not a mental abstraction, something like a delusive image, but a universal potency that expresses itself around the human presence, which, of course, must not be mistaken with the idea of the human supremacy, let alone with the individual sway over reality: the tailor works because there is a common want for what he makes, and the value of his work is in that link and not in his own outlook on the matter, so that even if no one thanked him or acknowledged his work, it would be the same worthy.

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