Space Spirit - Uchuurei

…However, rather than being essentially a modern natural scientist, he was someone who inherited the tradition of a pre-modern magical view of nature. He recognized that nature has both active and passive aspects, preached panpsychism, which holds that all things have life through them, and considered the universe to be a giant living thing by recognizing the universal spirit as a driving force in the universe itself. On the other hand, he spoke of the limitations of rational cognition and advocated a fundamental three-division of the world (God, nature, and humans) mediated by the awareness of ignorance. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Space Spirit" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし彼は本質的には近代的自然科学者というよりも，前近代的魔術的自然観の系統を受け継ぐ者であった。彼は自然に能産的側面と受動的側面とを認め，万物はそれによって生命をもつとする汎心論を説き，宇宙そのものにも動力因としての宇宙霊を認めることによって，宇宙を巨大な生き物と考える。一方，理性的認識能力の限界を説き，無知の自覚を媒介とする，世界の根源的三分割(神，自然，人間)を唱える。…

※「宇宙霊」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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