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Transterrestialism in the Renaissance and its Importance for today’s Space Philosophy
21 March 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm UTC+0
The transterrestrialist view of the world owns ancient roots, and is very much important today, while big crises are threatening civilization. Dr. Heuser gives a lecture on transterretrialist philosophy through history, and the relevance of a sane negentropic philosophic approach, to sustain humankind evolution into a Solar System civilization, defeating crises and regressive factors.
In the Renaissance period, Giordano Bruno, especially in his work “De Immenso” of 1591, outlined what was probably the first philosophy of space travel. “With the wings of the spirit”, he undertook journeys to the moon and other celestial bodies, conducted thought experiments on planetary perspective, and questioned the reasons for man’s ability to overcome limited horizons.
According to him, man’s desire to leave the Earth is founded in man’s dual nature. Although he has a limited body, he has an unlimited mind. Thus, man is a border crosser between the finite and the infinite and can thus transcend boundaries again and again. Giordano Bruno was a minstrel of the universe, in which he assumed an unlimited number of solar systems with living beings. The philosopher of German Idealism and Romanticism, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, took up Bruno’s ideas and wrote in 1844: man is not a local but a universal being. He originated on Earth, but he is not there only for the earth. He should rather dwell in the universe. This cosmic anthropology developed in the tradition of philosophy and its possible meaning for the present time is one of the subjects of this lecture by Dr. Heuser.
Alberto Cavallo, one of the co-founders of Space Renaissance International, will add a few considerations about the 15th Century Italian Renaissance.
A short bio
Dr. phil. Marie-Luise Heuser, philosopher and university lecturer at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Braunschweig, most recently at the Institute of Space Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig. She is the Executive Director of The Society for Space Culture and Head of the Space and Culture Department in the German Aerospace Society (DGLR).
Main research interests are the philosophy of space travel since antiquity, space theories, philosophy of nature, art and technology, metaphysics, ontology and anthropology.
Marie-Luise is Head of the Space Philosophy Laboratory at Space Renaissance Academy.
Publications:
- Transterrestrik in der Renaissance. Nikolaus von Kues, Giordano Bruno und Johannes Kepler (2008)
- Russischer Kosmismus und extraterrestrischer Suprematismus (2008)
- Space Philosophy (2016)
- Raumontologie und Raumfahrt um 1600 und um 1900 (2016)
- Return to the Moon (2020)
- Husserls Phänomenologie des Fliegens (2020)
- Der Mensch ist nicht nur für die Erde da. Schellings Philosophie des Weltraums (2020)
- Zur Philosophie der Raumfahrt von Günther Anders. Zwischen kopernikanischer Wende und Wiederverwurzelung (2021)
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