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Moral Cosmology

On Being in the World Fully and Well

Albert Borgmann

A moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells us what is, ethics tells us what we ought to do. While knowledge of physics has become hard, and understanding ethics has become shifting and uncertain, nostalgia for a unified cosmic understanding continues. Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well demands that we search for one world and learn to be truly at home in that world once again. Albert Borgmann argues that a basic understanding of quantum physics and relative theory offers the widest possible background for the renewal of a moral cosmology, inviting us into a deeper understanding that can inform the focal occasions and practices that we implicitly know to be valuable. We may not always be able to completely understand or explain the depth of the world gathered and disclosed in these focal occasions, but to greet it with celebration deepening into wonder orients us and makes it possible for us to be at home in the universe.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 132 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66690-046-0 • Hardback • January 2024 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-66690-047-7 • eBook • January 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Science / Cosmology, Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects

Albert Borgmann was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Montana.

Introduction

Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of Moral Cosmology

Chapter Two: Ethics Within Physics

Chapter Three: Background Conditions

Chapter Four: Ordinary Cosmology and Mathematics

Chapter Five: Ordinary Cosmology and Physics

Conclusion

Appendix: A Normative Cosmology

Moral Cosmology

On Being in the World Fully and Well

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  • A moral cosmology was the ordinary background knowledge of prescientific peoples, who took the divinity and the moral rules of the heavenly bodies for granted. That unified world view was disrupted by the European Enlightenment, which divided moral cosmology into physics and ethics: physics tells us what is, ethics tells us what we ought to do. While knowledge of physics has become hard, and understanding ethics has become shifting and uncertain, nostalgia for a unified cosmic understanding continues. Moral Cosmology: On Being in the World Fully and Well demands that we search for one world and learn to be truly at home in that world once again. Albert Borgmann argues that a basic understanding of quantum physics and relative theory offers the widest possible background for the renewal of a moral cosmology, inviting us into a deeper understanding that can inform the focal occasions and practices that we implicitly know to be valuable. We may not always be able to completely understand or explain the depth of the world gathered and disclosed in these focal occasions, but to greet it with celebration deepening into wonder orients us and makes it possible for us to be at home in the universe.

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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 132 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-66690-046-0 • Hardback • January 2024 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
    978-1-66690-047-7 • eBook • January 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Science / Cosmology, Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Author
Author
  • Albert Borgmann was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Montana.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction

    Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of Moral Cosmology

    Chapter Two: Ethics Within Physics

    Chapter Three: Background Conditions

    Chapter Four: Ordinary Cosmology and Mathematics

    Chapter Five: Ordinary Cosmology and Physics

    Conclusion

    Appendix: A Normative Cosmology

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