The Truly Infinite Universe

The Truly Infinite Universe:

Hegel, Hawking, and the Quantum Cosmo-logic of the Absolute

By

David James Stewart

The Truly Infinite Universe: Hegel, Hawking, and the Quantum Cosmo-logic of the Absolute By David James Stewart This book first published 2019 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2019 by David James Stewart All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-3443-X ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-3443-8

For J-R, there’s no one I’d rather explore the infinite universe with.

Phenomenology of Spirit Science of Logic

Verstand

Verstand Vernunft Vernunft Vernunft

Umschlagen Gegenstoß

Gegenstoß

Gegenstoß

Geist

Creatio ex Meonic Meonic

The Truly

Infinite Universe

EL W

Jena

W Zusätze Anmerkungen

W EL

Werke in zwanzig Bänden Encyclopaedia Logic

Writings of G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831)

D The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy

EL Hegel’s Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830)

EPM Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind: Being Part Three of the Encyclopaedia

of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Zusätze

EPN Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia

of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Zusätze

EPR Elements of the Philosophy of Right

FK Faith and Knowledge.

GW Jenaer Systementwürfe II Gesammelte Werke

Jena The Jena System, 1804—5: Logic and Metaphysics

L Hegel: The Letters

LHP Lectures on the History of Philosophy

LPEG Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God

LPR Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

PS Phenomenology of Spirit

SL Hegel’s Science of Logic

SL The Science of Logic

W Werke in zwanzig Bänden.

Writings of Stephen W. Hawking (1942-2018)

BHBU Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

BHT A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

PIAQG General

Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey

QC Three Hundred Years of Gravitation

TOE The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

GD The Grand Design

LSS The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

NST The Nature of Space and Time

WFU Physical Review D

the science of the whole

War and Peace

The Truly Infinite Universe

Meeting the Universe Halfway

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the

Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Meeting the Universe Halfway Meeting the Universe Halfway

transdisciplinary

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity

spirit

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity La transdisciplinarité, manifesto

idem Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity idem Transdisciplinarity: Theory

and Practice idem Transdisciplinary

Theory and Practice

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity Physics

Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite

SL W

the

Physics Mathematische Annalen

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite

Infinity: New Research Frontiers

gone beyond

gone beyond

Critique

Sens et non-sens

The Cambridge Companion to Hegel

Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins

Seminar, Book II

begin

Science of

Logic Encyclopaedia Logic Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

Positions

Science of Logic

Hegel's “Science of Logic”: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures

Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays

Approaching Infinity

zero

true infinitude

der Grundbegriff

Approaching Infinity

In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World

Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue

Einseitigkeiten Äußerlichkeit

Einseitigkeiten Äußerlichkeit

einseitig

Verstand

W EL SL W W EL Faith and Knowledge

Einseitigkeiten

Verstand Einseitigkeiten

EL W

Verstand Vernunft

empiricism

W

EL EL W

quantum

no

Physical Review D A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Gravitation

Physics

Reports

W EPN

consciousness requires

embodiment

that

Science of Logic

BHBU

The Problem of God in Modern Thought

W EL W EL W LPEG W LPEG W SL

W SL

itself

is

ohne Welt ist Gott nicht

Gott

W EL W LPR W LPR W LPR

Vorstellungen Begriff W EPM

W LPR Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Vorlesungen Über Die Philosophie Der Religion: Nebst Einer Schrift Über Die Beweise Vom Dasen Gottes,

The Owl of Minerva

God’s World, God’s Body

trinitarian

subject cognitively

W EL

The Incarnation of God: An Introduction to Hegel’s Theological Thought as Prolegomena to a Future Christology

Hegel’s Trinitarian Claim: A Critical

Reflection idem Divine Subjectivity: Understanding Hegel's Philosophy of Religion idem Experience and Spirit: A Post-Hegelian Philosophical Theology

Hegel’s Metaphysics of God: The Ontological Proof of as the Development of a Trinitarian Divine Ontology

mystically

mystical

speculative

counterintuitive logic of participation

incarnation