Kosmologie und Person

Abstract

Is a philosophical cosmology still possible today? It is not only possible, but even necessary, as we live in the global age and need to explain what “world” and “cosmopolitanism” deeply mean.  Sketching these issues, the paper illustrates some crucial aspects of Scheler’s Weltoffenheit, a formula which both helps to renew the paradigm of Great Chain of Being and to understand our dramatic worldness. In this context emerges the key role of the Person in his “cosmogonic” commitment to improve our coexistence on the Earth.