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Literary notes about Cosmology (AI summary)

The term "cosmology" in literature has been used in varied and rich ways that go beyond its modern scientific connotation. In works such as Santayana’s The Life of Reason, for example, it is interwoven with philosophical and historical inquiries, linking Hebrew philosophy to Platonic ideas [1, 2]. Durkheim similarly expands the term’s scope in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by associating it with totemism and religious thought, suggesting that every religion inherently speculates upon its divine order [3, 4]. Epictetus, on the other hand, offers a more nuanced application by critiquing the superficial treatment of physics and cosmology [5, 6], while even literary narratives like Eliot’s Middlemarch weave in discussions of Biblical Cosmology to reflect on character and society [7]. Chesterton further illustrates a contrast by framing the absence of proper cosmological grounding as a departure from ethical foundation [8], and Jesse Henry Jones uses cosmology to address conceptual difficulties in understanding motion and rest [9]. Together, these examples show that "cosmology" has served as a versatile term in literature, one that bridges ideas of science, philosophy, religion, and ethics.
  1. Hebrew philosophy of history identified with Platonic cosmology.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  2. It is true that the theistic cosmology might hear a different interpretation.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  3. We have just shown that, thus understood, totemism also has it cosmology.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  4. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  5. It is even permissible to say that he took physics or cosmology too lightly.
    — from The Enchiridion by Epictetus
  6. (LLA 102) 1.60 ——: Plato’s Cosmology .
    — from The Enchiridion by Epictetus
  7. "Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  8. The cry to the dim gods, cut off from ethics and cosmology, has become mere Psychical Research.
    — from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
  9. Thus does a true psychology dissipate all these difficulties as a true cosmology explained the perplexities "of Motion and Rest."
    — from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones

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