The Metaphysical Legacy of Cosmogonies. A Recurring Tension Between Monist and Pluralist Views
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.36.2015.14534Keywords:
Cosmogony, Creation, myth, arché, metaphysics, monism, dualismAbstract
All traditions of religious-philosophical thought hold their own narratives about Creation, their cosmogonies. In spite of being quite different to each other, they can be gathered into two main types: monist and pluralist cosmogonies. After surveying various relevant cosmogonist texts and classifying them into several subtypes, we find that dual trends persist in many plausibly monistic texts and, conversely, that numerous pluralist texts encompass monistic remnants. There is, then, a rather generalized tension between the reduction to a single principle and the presence of a plurality of principles. But the common metaphysic intuition underlying all these narratives is that there was an origin, a genesis, so that the universe has not always been as we observe it right now, but is the product of generation and evolution.Downloads
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