
Copernicus, God, and Goldilocks
In this book, author David Seargent takes issue with the assumption, long held in Western thought, that mankind and the planet we inhabit, has no special or privileged features; that our being here is purely a matter of chance. Typically, the so-called Copernican Principle which, in essence, is simply an empirical statement about our physical non-centrality, is raised to the level of a fundamental...
In this book, author David Seargent takes issue with the assumption, long held in Western thought, that mankind and the planet we inhabit, has no special or privileged features; that our being here is purely a matter of chance. Typically, the so-called Copernican Principle which, in essence, is simply an empirical statement about our physical non-centrality, is raised to the level of a fundamental...