A Conscious universe

dc.contributor.author	Donovan, Sean	eng
dc.date.issued	2015	eng
dc.description.abstract	A grand plan, guiding individual lives along a predetermined string, a string that is unable to be deviated from. It has been called many things, 'destiny', 'god's wil', 'determinism', and 'fate' among them. While its names and specific parameters vary, a universal concept unites all these disparate ideas. That of a conscious, personal force that guides the workings of the universe for some purpose, no matter how incomprehensible that purpose may be. This concept has reappeared throughout human works of all time periods and regions, and the medieval Middle East and Europe are certainly no exceptions.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Artifacts ; issue 12 (2015)	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/45561	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Artifacts ; issue 12 (2015)	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.subject	conscious universe, fate, Middle Ages, Saint Augustine's "Confessions", God's will, determinism	eng
dc.title	A Conscious universe	eng
dc.type	Article	eng