Pantheism Research Articles

Editorial Introduction

The articles in this issue are devoted to the question of whether consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality. In recent years the physicalist orthodoxy in the science and philosophy of consciousness has been challenged by a panpsychist insurgency (Chalmers, 2016; Goff, 2017; 2019), panpsychism being the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical universe. This new wave of panpsychists claim that their view avoids the deep challenges faced by physicalism as well as those faced by dualism, the traditional rival of physicalism. The best way to test whether panpsychism lives up to its promise is for philosophers and scientists to explore the pros and cons of panpsychism in discussion and in writing. Most of these articles were presented in some form at a workshop on the theme of 'Consciousness as Fundamental' at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in September of 2023. This was one of two workshops that are part of a John Templeton Foundation funded project (Grant #62683) co-directed by Andrei A. Buckareff and Philip Goff on the theme of 'Panpsychism and Pan(en)theism: Philosophy of Mind Meets Philosophy of Religion'. Yanssel Garcia's article, entitled 'Is Consciousness Fundamental?', was the winner of an essay competition hosted by the project. These articles address the theme of whether consciousness is fundamental from a variety of perspectives, most focusing on different puzzles that arise if we assume a panpsychist framework in trying to explain consciousness.

Interpretation Of Heaven And Time In Alisher Navoi Ontological Philosophy

The universe, the space that make up their basis planets in it, their creation, the main essence of their creation, form, composition, meaning, movements, interactions, their influence on human life and activities, the role of man in the universe and in life on Earth, life, the criteria of activity and processes occurring in time and space have long been of interest to humanity. One of the main problems in the history of philosophy is the question of space and time. This problem was defined in different ways in the great schools of thought by thinkers of different periods. One of these great thinkers is AlisherNavoi. Navoi's works, along with other socio-philosophical themes, uniquely express and analyze the problems of the firmament and time. Its main feature is that it is based on the divine (pantheistic) religion, Islam, its holy book, the Koran and other theological sources, as well as on the secrets of nature and the Universe, the main miracle of Allah - human intelligence, the power of enlightenment, they are the key revealing all these secrets.

Coleridge’s Daoism? Joseph Needham, Dominican Sinology, and Romantic Pantheism

Coleridge’s Daoism? Joseph Needham, Dominican Sinology, and Romantic Pantheism

The CaML model of pantheism

AbstractThis article argues for a new understanding of pantheism whereby God is a multi-located mereological simple which constitutes the cosmos. I argue that the traditional theist can more readily accept this version of pantheism than a version identifying God with the cosmos.1

Cohen, Spinoza and the Nature of Pantheism

Cohen, Spinoza and the Nature of Pantheism

Between the Glosses: Devils and Pantheism in theCrónica mexicayotl

Between the Glosses: Devils and Pantheism in the<i>Crónica mexicayotl</i>

On Daseok Yu Young-Mo’s Naturalistic Theism in Dialogue with Process Panentheism and Deep Pantheism

On Daseok Yu Young-Mo’s Naturalistic Theism in Dialogue with Process Panentheism and Deep Pantheism

Reconstructing Mysticism as Epistemological Endeavor in Haizi’s Poems

Most scholarship on Haizi’s mystical poetry has not highlighted his mysticism and has failed to identify its general epistemological significance in the life and writing of poets. While mysticism after Misty poetry has been confined to the mystification of nature, the secrecy of destiny, or the elusiveness of truth—a spiritual heritage that struggles to maintain one’s national pride—Haizi’s dramatic verses feature monotheistic mysticism and center on the paradoxical and ineffable experiences of divinity. With this epistemological breakthrough, he attempted to unify Chinese culture with Christian tradition, to write “real poetry,” and to replace condescendingly objective and external descriptions of human experience and truth with an empathetic and active participation that blurs the line between subjectivity and objectivity, living and writing. His Sun: Seven Books demonstrates a gradual but steady transition from Greek pantheism to the Judeo-Christian tradition, such as in his Book of Regicide . As a modern rendition of Oedipus the King , the Book of Regicide takes on Greek “elements,” but transcends its maternal inheritance and rejuvenates it in modern dramatic verses, enriched with poetic means of expression, and offered as an alternative approach for Chinese intellectuals to engage in spirituality and self-realization.

Aesthetic Analysis of Mosques’ Ornamentation and Tiling in the Safavid Era: A Case Study of Sheikh Lotfollah, Char Bagh, and Shah Mosques in Isfahan

Abstract. Ornamentation in the Islamic architecture in addition to elegance, suggest other concepts such as pantheism and tiling considers an elegant method of ornamentation throughout Muslim’s world.In Safavid era seven-colored tiles were widely used in Isfahan palaces. The present study aims to analyze the ornamentation of mosques inSafavid era from an aesthetic point of view. Therefore, Shaikhlotfollah, Char Bagh and Shah Mosque of Isfahan are samples studied in a descriptive-analytical method and library document data collection, data analysis is based on the Gestalt principles. Finally, aesthetic of mosque’s ornamentation is analyzed based on the principle of perception and formulate some criteria to identify it.

S. Alberto Magno y la Epistola Alexandri de Principio Universi Esse

La “reducción universal al ser”, como método de la metafísica, fue descubierta por san Alberto Magno en un tratado panteísta que él consideró erróneamente de origen aristotélico.

Creation Ex Nihilo as Mixed Metaphor

AbstractThis article makes the following three programmatic points. First, an understanding of divine transcendence, prominent in Christian theology's apophatic strain, developed in tandem, both historically and logically, with ideas about creation that eventuated in a creation ex nihilo viewpoint. Such an account of divine transcendence, second, fosters an account of creation (and a general understanding of the God/world relationship) that typically mixes both natural and personalistic images and categories. The loss of such an account of transcendence since the early modern period, I suggest thirdly and in conclusion, is therefore responsible in great part for the dualistic, mutually exclusive alternation between a deistic, interventionist God and pan(en)theism so common in modern Christian thought.

The Triumph of Eywa: Avatar, Pantheism, and the Sign of an Ecological Ecumene

In an op-ed piece published in late 2009 in the New York Times, Ross Douthat claimed that James Cameron’s film Avatar was a piece of pantheist propaganda designed to encourage the worship of nature rather than God. In this essay, I critique Douthat’s claims as a misunderstanding of pantheism and a symptom of conservative Christian fear that environmentalism is crypto-paganism. I offer an alternative reading of Eywa, the film’s planetary intelligence, as a creature, a figure of the Christian goddess Natura; a descendant of literary paganism; and a sign of an incipient Christian environmental ecumene. En un artículo de opinión publicado a finales de 2009 en el New York Times, Ross Douthat afirmó que la película de James Cameron, Avatar, era un ejemplo de propaganda panteísta diseñada para animar a la adoración de la naturaleza en vez de a Dios. En este ensayo, evalúo las afirmaciones de Douthat, clasificándolas como un malentendido sobre el panteísmo y como un síntoma del temor cristiano conservador de que el ambientalismo sea cripto-paganismo. Ofrezco una interpretación alternativa de Eywa, la inteligencia planetaria de la película, como una criatura, una figura de la diosa cristiana Natura, una descendiente del paganismo literario, y un indicio de una incipiente ecúmene ambiental cristiana.

Does panentheism reduce to pantheism? A response to Craig

Does panentheism reduce to pantheism? A response to Craig

Tennyson's the Higher Pantheism

Tennyson's the Higher Pantheism

Theism or Pantheism?

Theism or Pantheism?

Pantheism and Platonic Creation

Pantheism and Platonic Creation

From Parochialism to Pantheism

From Parochialism to Pantheism

Pantheism vs. Theism

Soulevant la question de l'individuation de Dieu qui apparait au coeur du debat opposant le theisme personnaliste au pantheisme impersonnel, l'A. propose un nouvel eclairage du probleme de la correlation entre pantheisme et theisme qui repose sur une conception actualiste des modalites temporelles. Examinant l'idee d'un dieu createur non-individualise chez Spinoza et Wieman, et la notion de creativite chez Whitehead, l'A. montre que si le pantheisme refuse l'idee d'un individu cosmique dans le present, il n'interdit pas l'idee d'un individu, donc d'une subjectivite et d'une personnalite, dans l'avenir

Pantheism and Science

Soulevant la question de savoir si la science contemporaine privilegie le pantheisme sur les autres doctrine atheiste, polytheiste, panentheiste et theiste-transcendantale, l'A. confronte les caracteristiques scientifiques suivantes: 1) l'origine temporelle de l'univers, 2) l'expansion de l'univers, 3) l'existence de lois naturelles penetrantes et ubiquistes, et 4) la necessite d'une condition ideale pour la vie, aux caracteristiques dualistes ou physicalistes des differentes positions etudiees

Book Review: Pantheism

Book Review: Pantheism