Speculation on number and proportion led to an intuitive feeling of the harmonia ("fitting together") of the kosmos ("order of things"); and the application of the tetraktys to the theory of music (see below Music) revealed a hidden order in the range of sound.
Cosmos, in astronomy, the entire physical universe considered as a unified whole (from the Greek kosmos, meaning "order," "harmony," and "the world").
Finally, the psychological argument from satisfaction of ambition is only partly compelling: it was surely more rewarding in every way to be a tyrant than to be a Dreran kosmos.
The book was unsigned, though there was a frontispiece portrait, the name "Walter Whitman" on the copyright page, and, inside, the jubilant line "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos.
Microcosm, (from Greek mikros kosmos, "little world"), a Western philosophical term designating man as being a "little world" in which the macrocosm, or universe, is reflected.
Having an essence meant that human beings could be placed within a larger whole, a kosmos, that provided the standard for human flourishing.
It is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman ("Demiurge," dêmiourgos, 28a6), who, imitating an unchanging and eternal model, imposes mathematical order on a preexistent chaos to generate the ordered universe (kosmos).
But for Lotze this conclusion was inevitable if the universe and its elements were to be properly conceptualized as "a unity" or kosmos.
For example, a very early constitutional inscription shows that 7th-century Drerus on Crete prohibited tenure of the office of kosmos a local magistracy until 10 years had elapsed since a man's last tenure).
"The scarcity of new reserves has been driving companies into plays that have previously been seen as extremely high risk and high cost," said Brian Maxted, the chief executive officer of Kosmos Energy, a deepwater-exploration company in Dallas.
