Solitude
The oneness (read: All-unit, ancient Greek Ἓν καὶ Πᾶν hen kai pan , German , one and all ' or unity of all ) is a philosophical and theological technical term that describes the indivisible unity of all being, including all beings, worlds and Universes.
Philosophy and theology
The first formulations of solitude come from Heraclitus (“From all one and from one all”) and the Neoplatonists .
In theology ( Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) solitude denotes a central concept of pantheistic teachings, according to which the unity of the world consists in God (as multiplicity in unity) and God does not stand outside or above the world, but as realizing himself in the world is thought (as a unity in plurality). This principle is also revealed in the partially related panentheism , although there, in addition to the immanent God level, there is also a transcendent God level. The idea of solitude also forms part of Spinoza's idea of God .
Solitude as a state of consciousness
But solitude is also a term for a tangible state of consciousness . Various forms of expansion of consciousness can, in the opinion of some, lead to the feeling of recognition of solitude. Characteristic is the dissolution of the boundaries between the self-experience on the one hand and the rest of reality and space-time on the other.
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literature
- Ph. Clayton, A. Peacocke [eds.]: In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being. Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World . Eerdman Publishing, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-8028-0978-0
- Christoph Wand: Time and solitude. A speculative draft for teaching theology and physics following the analysis of time by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . LIT-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0899-0