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Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to...
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Zusammenfassung: | Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to shape modern social values. This work will be of interest to rhetoricians, philosophers, historians, and theologists. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) |
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spelling | Packer, Joseph, 1983- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvTkh7rhjDhwxcwk6fbr3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015046125 Alien life and human purpose : a rhetorical examination through history / Joseph Packer. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Plato's rhetorical cosmology: the unity of the world as foundational myth -- The dominance of the unity cosmology from Plato to Galileo -- William Whewell and Alfred Russel Wallace: unity cosmology in the modern era -- Quantum unity -- Unity in the twenty-first century -- Humanity as the measure vs. the unity of the world. Print version record. Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to shape modern social values. This work will be of interest to rhetoricians, philosophers, historians, and theologists. Cosmology History. Ethics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045096 Cosmologie Histoire. Morale. ethics (philosophy) aat PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics. bisacsh Cosmology fast Ethics fast History fast Electronic books. has work: Alien life and human purpose (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGfmWg6xXMWxQYwP4bpPry https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Packer, Joseph, 1983- Alien life and human purpose 9781498513012 (DLC) 2015029302 (OCoLC)910856346 |
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title_full | Alien life and human purpose : a rhetorical examination through history / Joseph Packer. |
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topic | Cosmology History. Ethics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045096 Cosmologie Histoire. Morale. ethics (philosophy) aat PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics. bisacsh Cosmology fast Ethics fast |
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