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The Universe We Think In (Paperback)
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The Universe We Think In (Paperback)
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The Universe We Think In arises from a tradition of realism, both
philosophical and political, a universe in which the common sense
understanding of things is included in our judgement about them.
The scope is both vast and narrow - vast because it is aware of the
reality of things, narrow because it is the individual person who
can and wants to know them. The abiding undercurrent of this book
is that the cosmos, the universe, does not look at us human beings,
but we look at it, seek to understand it, and do understand much of
it. Why is this so? The book seeks to begin with the basic question
that we each ought to pose to ourselves; namely: "Why do I exist?"
Nothing is more immediate than the relation of what is not
ourselves to ourselves. We have the strange experience that we
cannot even `know ourselves' unless we know something that is not
ourselves. In a sense, we have two related worlds, the one that
exists, a universe, as it were, that includes each of us, and the
same world that we think about. What is so striking about our
personal existence is that we can know what is not ourselves.
Indeed, we not only want to know what is not ourselves, but this
knowledge of what is not ourselves is also, in part, the reason for
our existence in the first place. Our thinking about the world is
not unrelated to the world that is. Yet, once we understand what is
in the world, both systematically and casually, we find ourselves
free in a world of others who also think and communicate with one
another. Thus, to know ourselves includes knowing what is not
ourselves in its own diversity. Ultimately, we seek to know why it
all is rather than is not, why it all belongs together in the same
universe.
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