ReviewThe scope of Hagger's book is immense.
Universalism is a call to a philosopher to abandon the specialisms (in
particular logic and language) and to attempt, once again, the kind of Grand
Unified Theory of Everything that has marked the discipline from the beginning.
Universalism has the potentiality to be as potent a movement in the 21st century
as Existentialism was in the post-war world. Christopher Macann, Lecturer in
philosophy at the University of Bordeaux, author of Being and Becoming
Product DescriptionIn "The New Philosophy of Universalism",
Nicholas Hagger presents a new philosophy focusing on an up-to-date view of the
universe and its bio-friendly, orderly rather than random, structure. At the
origin of Western civilization, philosophy reflected the One universe and man's
position in it. The last 350 years of increasing materialism and reductionism
have fragmented the universe. In the 20th century philosophy preferred to focus
on logic and language and has become increasingly irrelevant. Now a new
philosophy, Universalism, takes philosophy back to its original aim: focus on
the universe - the universe known to contemporary cosmologists, astrophysicists,
physicists, biologists and geologists, who identify systems of order as well as
randomness.Reflecting the most up-to-date scientific evidence for what the
universe is, "Universalism" focuses on cosmological bio-friendliness and the
universal principle of order, and reconnects philosophy to the metaphysical
tradition rejected by the Vienna Circle. A systematic philosophy of the
expanding universe, Nature and man, "Universalism" identifies a Law of Order
that counterbalances a Law of Randomness and offers a new philosophy that has
global applications.
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