{"id":5604,"date":"2025-12-30T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5604"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:19:26","slug":"space-time-and-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=5604","title":{"rendered":"SPACE, TIME AND SCIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

SPACE, TIME AND SCIENCE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Vol. XII
Opera Omnia
Maryknoll, New York (ORBIS BOOKS) 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Volume XII, the last one in the structure of this Opera Omnia, includes articles and books, dealing with science, that were published in the early years of my production. Even though their contents and style may now sound quite outdated, I nonetheless decided to insert them here as a reminder of that period and the issues I was then interested in. In particular the prologue, “Synthetic Visions of the Universe”, is remarkably outdated, but it presents some insights which I still consider meaningful.
The theme of this book starts with the conception of time linked to the scientific vision of reality. Omnia tempus habent<\/em> (All things have a time of their own) This time is not something which envelops the being externally, but an integral and specific dimension of each being, which is insofar as it lasts<\/em>, and it lasts precisely because it is<\/em> this particular being and not another. The time of the technological civilization has caused a profound conflict within Man by altering his life rhythm. Should Man refuse technology or, on the contrary, reinforce it and be integrated in progress? This is an inescapable conflict.
At this point it should be noted that technology has an ontonomic nature, and therefore an intrinsic relationship both with the world and with Man. In fact, the relationship between Man and technology is as deep and intimate as that between technology and nature. Man generates technology by starting from nature. Technology is originally produced by Man’s interest in the earth and matter. Et tempus non erit amplius<\/em> (And time will be no longer).
The volume is made up of two sections, although the contents are constantly interwoven. The first section concerns time and space, which is a subject that forms the basis of a vision of reality not only from a philosophical point of view but also from a scientific one. Because the subject of time is perceived differently from western and eastern viewpoints, the articles have been divided: the eastern vision underscores the aspect which is more closely linked to Being, while the western one is more linear, with a beginning and an end, an alpha and an omega.<\/p>

INDEX OF ORIGINAL TEXTS IN VOLUME XII<\/p>

\u201cPrologue\u2014A Synthetic Vision of The Universe.\u201d Original article: \u201cVisio\u0300n de sintesis del universe.\u201d In Arbor <\/em>1 (1944); then in Humanismo y Cruz <\/em>(Madrid: Rialp, 1963). Translated by Carla Ros.<\/p>

\u201cTime and History in the Tradition.\u201d Original article: <\/em>\u201cTemps et histoire dans la tradition de l\u2019Inde.\u201d In Les cultures et le temps <\/em>(Paris: Payot-UNESCO, 1975), 75ff.; then in English as \u201cTime and History in the Tradition of India: Kala and Karma,\u201d in Cultures and Time <\/em>(Paris: Payot\u2013UNESCO, 1976), 63\u201368.<\/p>

\u201cToward a Typology of Time and Temporality in the Ancient Indic Tradition.\u201d Philosophy East and West <\/em>24, no. 2 (April 1974).<\/p>

\u201cTime and Sacrifice: The Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity.\u201d In J. T. Fraser, N. Lawrence, and D. Park, eds., The Study of Time<\/em>, vol. III (New York: Springer, 1978), 683\u2013727.<\/p>

\u201cCircular Time: Temporization and Temporality.\u201d Original article: \u201cLe temps circulaire: Temporisation et temporalite\u0301.\u201d In Temporalite\u0301 et Alienation<\/em>, ed. E. Castelli (Paris: Aubier, 1975), with a small part from a previous article in Spanish: \u201cEl presente tempiterno. Una postilla a la historia de la salvacio\u0301n y a la teologia de la liberacio\u0301n.\u201d In Vargas Machuka, Teologia y mundo contemporaneo. Homage a Karl Rahner <\/em>(Madrid: Cristiandad, 1975). <\/em><\/p>

\u201cKa\u0304las\u0301akti: The Power of Time.\u201d In Kapila Vatsyayan, ed., Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern <\/em>(New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts\u2013Sterling, 1996).<\/p>

\u201cThe End of History.\u201d Italian version presented by the author in Seminario dei \u201cQuaderni di psicoterapia infantile,\u201d L\u2019esperienza del tempo <\/em>(Assisi) 26\/27, no. 9 (1981), based on the English text published in T. King, ed., Teilhard de Chardin and the Unity of Knowledge<\/em>.<\/p>

\u201cThe Mirage of the Future.\u201d Convergence <\/em>(Fribourg) nos. 3\u20134: 3\u20136.<\/em> \u201cThe Future Does Not Come Later.\u201d Original article: \u201cDie Zukunft kommt nicht spa\u0308ter,\u201d in Vom Sinn der Tradition <\/em>(Munich: Hrsg. L. Reinisch, Beck, 1970), 53\u201364.<\/p>

\u201cThere Is No Outer Space without Inner Space.\u201d In Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern<\/em>, ed. K. Vatsyayan (New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1991). \u201cMax Planck (1858\u20131947).\u201d Arbor <\/em>(Madrid) 24 (1947): 387\u2013406.<\/p>

Ontonomy of Science. <\/em>Original text: Ontonomia de la Ciencia. Sobre el sentido de la ciencia y sus relaciones con la filosofia <\/em>(Madrid: Gredos, 1961). The Narrow Door of Knowledge: Sense, Reason and Faith<\/em>. Original text: La Porta stretta della Conoscenza <\/em>(Milan: Rizzoli, 2005); reviewed by the author in La puerta estrecha del conocimiento <\/em>(Barcelona: Herder, 2009).<\/p>

\u201cThe Ambiguity of Science.\u201d Original text in L\u2019Altrapagina <\/em>(Citta\u0300 di Castello) (1992).<\/p>

\u201cTechnocentrism: Some Theses on Technology.\u201d Original article: \u201cEl tecnocentrisme: algunes tesis sobre tecnologia.\u201d In A. Merrier, cur., Philosophie et Technique <\/em>(Institut International de Philosophie, 1984), 61\u201372; enlarged in La nueva Innoce\u0300ncia <\/em>(Barcelona: Proa, 1998).<\/p>

\u201cEmancipation from Technology.\u201d Original text: \u201cL\u2019emancipation de la technologie.\u201d Inter- culture <\/em>(Montreal) 85: 22\u201337.<\/p>

\u201cThe Cosmic Evolution.\u201d Text of the conference at the Teilhard Centre for the Future of Man, London, 1990; then published in Teilhard Review <\/em>25, no. 3: 61\u201371.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPACE, TIME AND SCIENCE Vol. XIIOpera OmniaMaryknoll, New York (ORBIS BOOKS) 2022 Volume XII, the last one in the structure of this Opera Omnia, includes articles and books, dealing with science, that were published in the early years of my production. Even though their contents and style may now sound quite outdated, I nonetheless decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5604\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}