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"Cosmology" can be described, briefly, as Ayn Rand's "sense of life," or to paraphrase Marcus Aurelius, to know what the universe is, who you are, and what your place is in the universe as you understand it to be.
Every character in "Moby Dick" says something cosmological almost every time he opens his mouth, including the preacher who climbs the pulpit before Ahab goes out looking for the great whale.
What are some books like this one that are your favorites?

2007-11-06 00:17:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

That's great, sofa king, but there is nothing cosmological about "Jaws."
Rational: I may read that first book you listed, thanks for the tip.

2007-11-07 04:40:36 · update #1

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I think you're better off using the word 'ontology' when describing these sensations.

Mine would be 'Les Miserables'

2007-11-07 15:42:30 · answer #1 · answered by soppy.bollocks 4 · 0 0

Beyond a doubt, "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins best fits your definition for me. It is a beautifully written description of our evolutionary ancestors. Also "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker gives a scientific sense of self. To paraphrase, he says that the self is a component of the brain located in the frontal cortex that makes up a self description based on information gathering which is analogous to a dream story based on memory images. The "self" is just a conscious story.

2007-11-06 03:36:14 · answer #2 · answered by rationallady 4 · 0 0

you're in basic terms asserting that to look smart. I guess you have in no way surely examine all of it. {I surely have that is turgid!} Mine is Jane Eyre. At 9 i grew to become into Jane. then I surely have additionally been Psyche, Artemis, Elizabeth Bennett, Orlando, Cathy Earnshaw, Jo March, Hester Prynne, Hermione Granger and Lisbeth Salander too. Plus a great number of others. What ever I examine I substitute into the heroine!

2016-12-08 13:36:00 · answer #3 · answered by quartermon 4 · 0 0

Smile On The Void
by Stuart Gordan (psuedonym, i think)

2007-11-06 00:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

my favorite book is the rip off of moby dick which is `jaws` by peter Benchley its about a crazy captain and his obsession with a great white beast.

2007-11-06 00:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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