Lecture on Science and Religion by Professor Miloje Rakocevic
Event
18:00
20:00
Serbian
The lecture titled “Four Eyes in the Cognition of Reality: The Relation of Science, Philosophy, Arts, and Religion” by Professor Miloje Rakočević from the University of Niš was delivered on May 18th at the Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade. Professor Rakocevic presented a very intriguing and holistic approach in his long-term scientific work, focusing on the points of contact between natural sciences (especially chemistry, mathematics) and theology that would enable their meaningful encounter.
The lecture was fostered by the project “Science and Orthodoxy around the World” led by the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. It aimed at triggering the dialogue on science–religion relationship in Serbian context. The lecture attracted about 90 people in the audience, including the Ambassador of Republic of Greece in Serbia, H. E. Mr. Elias Eliadis, academicians, scientists, theologians, students from the Department for History of Science and Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade, young scholars and researchers.
The lecture “Four Eyes in the Cognition of Reality: The Relation of Science, Philosophy, Arts, and Religion” started from the idea that in knowledge of overall reality all four lines of possible cognition have to be considered: science, philosophy, arts and religion. The lecture aimed at synthesizing the four spheres of cognition, prefiguring new perspectives, with metaphoricity, codogenicity, and semioticity of the phenomena in nature and human creation, as their nucleus in general, as well as in concrete examples. With a brief overview of the civilizational course of science and Orthodox Christian religion interrelatedness, Professor Rakočević presented how new connections of science, philosophy, religion, and arts were established. Presenting the determination of the periodic system of chemical elements according to golden ratio and the genetic code the question of the existence of reality as such emerged in a new way, and this question inevitably again led towards a new establishment of the relation between science and Orthodox religion.
Lecture on Science and Religion by Professor Miloje Rakocevic
Event
18:00
20:00
Serbian
The lecture titled “Four Eyes in the Cognition of Reality: The Relation of Science, Philosophy, Arts, and Religion” by Professor Miloje Rakočević from the University of Niš was delivered on May 18th at the Museum of Science and Technology in Belgrade. Professor Rakocevic presented a very intriguing and holistic approach in his long-term scientific work, focusing on the points of contact between natural sciences (especially chemistry, mathematics) and theology that would enable their meaningful encounter.
The lecture was fostered by the project “Science and Orthodoxy around the World” led by the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. It aimed at triggering the dialogue on science–religion relationship in Serbian context. The lecture attracted about 90 people in the audience, including the Ambassador of Republic of Greece in Serbia, H. E. Mr. Elias Eliadis, academicians, scientists, theologians, students from the Department for History of Science and Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade, young scholars and researchers.
The lecture “Four Eyes in the Cognition of Reality: The Relation of Science, Philosophy, Arts, and Religion” started from the idea that in knowledge of overall reality all four lines of possible cognition have to be considered: science, philosophy, arts and religion. The lecture aimed at synthesizing the four spheres of cognition, prefiguring new perspectives, with metaphoricity, codogenicity, and semioticity of the phenomena in nature and human creation, as their nucleus in general, as well as in concrete examples. With a brief overview of the civilizational course of science and Orthodox Christian religion interrelatedness, Professor Rakočević presented how new connections of science, philosophy, religion, and arts were established. Presenting the determination of the periodic system of chemical elements according to golden ratio and the genetic code the question of the existence of reality as such emerged in a new way, and this question inevitably again led towards a new establishment of the relation between science and Orthodox religion.