ROUND TABLE A View of the World by Erwin Schrödinger
Boris A. Medvedev Saratov State University, Saratov, Russian Federation
Abstract
The report is dedicated to Erwin Schrödinger (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for the discovery of new forms of atomic theory), one of the great physicists of the 20th century. In addition to outstanding works on quantum mechanics, Schrödinger published at least 100 works on general scientific and philosophical topics, including books known to the entire scientific community: "Nature and the Greeks", "Science and Humanism", "Mind and Matter", "What is Life from the Point of View of Physics" and "My View of the World". The last book, which he completed working on a few months before his death, is considered to be Erwin Schrödinger's philosophical testament.
E. Schrödinger was an extraordinary and comprehensively developed personality. It is about him that one can say in the words of P. Florensky "Man is infinity". He spoke six languages - ancient Greek and Latin, French and English, Italian and Spanish. He published a collection of poems. His fundamental knowledge included both European and Eastern philosophy. In 1948, he lectured on ancient Greek philosophy at University College in London. Schrödinger's view of the world revealed the cosmic ideas of the universe of ancient thinkers - Xenophanes and Parmenides, Protagoras and Democritus, Heraclitus and Plato ... Millennia pass, but the thread of knowledge does not break - in Schrödinger's books, the dialogue between reason and feeling continues, metaphysical questions are discussed: Who are we? Where are we going? What is reality? The nature of our consciousness and memory? What is life and death? And, finally, will we create an ethical imperative to preserve civilization? Erwin Schrödinger's thoughts throughout his life were directed on the immensity.
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Boris A. Medvedev
Saratov State University
Russia
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