Welcome to ALEXANDRIA, the Internet mailing list for the discussion of the Western cosmological traditions.

The focus of this symposium is interdisciplinary and it is hoped that this list will foster discussion in two main areas: historical and philosophical.

1) HISTORICAL. We welcome postings and discussions which relate to any of the spiritual, philosophical, and scientific traditions that flourished in Hellenistic Alexandria: Platonism, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, the mystery religions, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, mathematics, harmonics, Gnosis, Hermeticism, Greek religion and mythology, mysteriosophical traditions, and emerging Christianity. In an age of scholarly specialization, the emphasis of ALEXANDRIA is the study of these and other traditions as they relate to one another within a larger cultural context; the list will also welcome discussion of later scientific and mystical cosmologies of the Western world, for instance the development of Platonic and Hermetic concepts in the emerging science and philosophy of the European Renaissance.

2) PHILOSOPHICAL. We would like to recreate the interdisciplinary, cosmopolitan atmosphere of ancient Alexandria in a contemporary context and warmly welcome the exploration of larger philosophical questions: the nature
and adequacy of cosmological models, cosmology and the philosophy of whole systems, the relations between underlying cosmological models and culture, art, education, human welfare, the effects of past philosophy on societies in
history and the application of philosophical insight to modern problems on both individual and societal levels.


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