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Albert Einstein, cosmos and religion
Author(s) -
V. Dokovic,
Petar Grujić
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
serbian astronomical journal/serbian astronomical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1820-9289
pISSN - 1450-698X
DOI - 10.2298/saj0774061d
Subject(s) - agnosticism , einstein , epistemology , philosophy , atheism , infinity , perspective (graphical) , theism , physics , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science
We consider Einstein's attitude regarding religious as such, from both cosmological and epistemological points of view. An attempt to put it into a wider socio-historical perspective was made, with the emphasis on ethnic and religious background. It turns out that the great scientist was neither atheist nor believer in the orthodox sense and the closest labels one might stick to him in this respect would be pantheism/cosmism (ontological aspect) and agnosticism (episte­mological aspect). His ideas on divine could be considered as a continuation of line traced by Philo of Alexandria, who himself followed Greek Stoics and (Neo-) Platonists and especially Baruch Spinoza. It turns out that Einstein's both scientific (rational aspects) and religious (intuitive aspects) thinking were deeply rooted in the Hellenic culture. His striving to unravel the secrets of the universe and the roots of cosmological order resembles much the ancient ideas of the role of knowledge in fathoming the divine as such, as ascribed to Gnostics.

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