Astrology in European Religious History: Its Philosophical Foundations through the Ages

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Original languageEnglish
Number of pages236
ISBN (electronic)9783631897171
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Abstract

This treatise on religious studies traces the European tradition of astrology from its oriental beginnings to the present day. The aim is to get a view of the different mythological, philosophical and theological ideas of the cosmos (especially with Platonic and Aristotelian borrowings), which astrology has repeatedly reformulated and carried through all epochs. However, it seems as if astrology had lost its plausibility with the overcoming of the geocentric world view by Copernicus and Kepler and could only continue to exist as an "intellectual regression" (Theodor Adorno). This view is countered by the thesis, founded here, that astrology has been able to survive the changes in world views unscathed because it designs philosophical (holistic) patterns of reasoning into the relationship between cosmos and humans, which in a Platonic sense understand the cosmos as an intelligent and vital organism.

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    Astrology, Esotericism, Hermeticism, History of European religions and worldviews, Philosophy, Psychology

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