Alien life and human purpose : a rhetorical examination through history / Joseph Packer.
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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| Published: | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Alien life and human purpose : |b a rhetorical examination through history / |c Joseph Packer. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethics. | |
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