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From a review of Rémi Brague's book The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience Of the Universe In Western Thought (University of Chicago Press):
A world is something that suits human beings, that is ordered to meet our perspective; that is why the Greek word for world, kosmos, means “order.” What we have today is something else, “the universe” — a cautious and hypothetical word, which simply designates everything that is or may be, whether we can know it or not.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
A world is something that suits human beings, that is ordered to meet our perspective; that is why the Greek word for world, kosmos, means “order.” What we have today is something else, “the universe” — a cautious and hypothetical word, which simply designates everything that is or may be, whether we can know it or not.
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2003, 14:31 - Rubrik: Leben