Everything has meaning, everything shines from life; and the flow of human juice rises to the core of the Christian faith. For the sake of human peace, in the name of Fact and in defense of the sacred.
The Future of Mankind by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Social Heredity and Progress: Notes on the Humanist-
- Education and Life
- Education and Mankind
- Education and Christianity
No complete light has yet been shed on the secret processes that take place in the microscopic recesses of the cell. The fulfillment of this function is the final proof of the biological nature and value of education.
The Grand Option
- On the Threshold of Human Socialization
- The Possible Paths
- The Choice of the Road
- The properties of Union
- The True Environment of Human Action
In the view of the 'pluralist' the world moves in the direction of distribution and therefore of the growing autonomy of its separate. Spatially, our awareness of the world is expanded to embrace the Infinitesimal and the Immense.
Some Reflections on Progress
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., was Professor of Geology at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Director of the National Geological Survey of China, and Director of.
The Future of Man Seen by a Palaeontologist Introduction
Preliminary Observation: the Slow Movements
- The Case of Life
- The Role of Paleontology
- The Growth of Consciousness
- The place of Man in the forefront of Life
- The Movement of Mankind upon Itself
- The Future of Mankind
- The Advance
- The Crossroads
- The Choice
He is part of the Infinite, and if he moves at all, he moves as the Invisible. Let's take a closer look in light of the latest data provided by the combined ingenuity of an army of researchers.
On the Possible Bases of a Universal Human Creed
A Principle of Convergence. The Concept of Noogenesis
For a century and a half, the physical sciences, preoccupied with analytical studies, were dominated by the idea of diffusion of. The sensation of the earth opening up and exploding upward into God; and the feeling that God takes root and finds nourishment downwards in.
A New Soul for a New World: Faith Renewed in the Progress of Mankind
Despite the wave of skepticism that seems to have swept away the hope (too inventive, no doubt, and too materialistic) that the nineteenth century lived on, faith in the future is not dead in our hearts. Not only does the idea of a possible elevation of our consciousness to a state of super consciousness present itself daily, in the light of scientist.
The New Spirit, 1942
- THE CONE OF TIME
- The Organic Depth of Time and of the Spirit
- The Convergence of Organic Time and the Upward Growth of the Spirit
- Towards a Christian Renewal
It arises from the gradual adjustment of human values in terms of this revaluation of Time. Before we study the implications of this, we need to take a closer look at the nature and properties of the new environment into which we are being born. The breakdown of the geocentric theory, which two centuries later led to the end of anthropocentrism, left people thinking.
But what is the effect, for the Christian faith and mysticism, of this redefinition of the Spirit?
Life and the Planets
- Living Planets in the Universe
- From the point of view of the Immense: the apparent insignificance of the earth
- In terms of Complexity; or the Planets as vital centers of the Universe
- Man on the Planet Earth: The Most Complex of Molecules Having established, on the basis of complexity, the astral preeminence
- The Present State of Mankind: The Phase of Planetization To open any book treating scientifically, philosophically or
But isn't it possible that we have been looking through the wrong end of the telescope or seeing things in the wrong light. Now come down a step in the scale of monstrosities and look at the stars. The first stage was the formation of proteins up to the cell stage.
The end of the world – for us that means the end of the earth.
A Great Event
- An Irresistible Physical Process: The Collectivization of Mankind
- The One Possible Interpretation: A Super-organization of the Matter around Us
- The Only Permissible Inward Reaction: A Sense of Evolution A remarkable change overtakes the process of zoological evolution at
- Deeper than Our Present Discords: Mankind in the Re-shaping Although in terms of its biological, economic and mental determinisms
In vain, for no power in the world can enable us to escape from that which is itself the power of the world. And finally, at the extreme end of the known spectrum, comes the thinking glow of the human brain. This is what we are inexorably moving towards, in the tighter embrace of social determinisms.
We feel that we are of the same species, and we find that we are very much.
Some Reflections on the Spiritual Repercussions of the Atom
It is enough to recall the general condition necessary for the solution of the problem: it must be placed on an international scale. He felt it, for example, in the darkness of the Paleolithic era, when he first dared to use fire or The awakening and harnessing of the unfathomable intellectual and effective powers still latent in the human mass.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., was professor of geology at the Catholic Institute in Paris, director of the National Geological Survey of China, and director of the National Research Center of France.
Faith in Peace
And now that we have noticed this profound change in the evolutionary process at the human level, how can we not see that this changes the whole nature of the problem, so that ultimately and fundamentally it is the divergence of the living shoots, operating from the highest level, down to the family and the individuals that make up the family, which has always been the cause of human conflict. But suppose, on the contrary (this is the entirely new development in the case of mankind), that the spreading and unfolding of forms gradually gives way to a process of folding.
But does that mean (that's another matter entirely) that we can escape collectively from the basic set of the tide.
The Formation of the
Noosphere: A Biological Interpretation of Human History
Birth and Zoological Structure of the Noosphere
Seen from this point of view, fully supported by experience, the collective human organism, so vaguely envisioned by economists, emerges decisively from the mists of speculation to take its place and assume the radiance of a clearly defined star of the first magnitude v. In man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative quality of thought, it finally managed to achieve, in the entire living group, a complete synthesis, the process of which is still clearly visible, if we only bother to look, in the 'rock'. the structure of the modern human world. In today's humanity, within (as I call it) the noosphere, we can think for the first time, at the very top of the evolutionary tree, about the result that can be produced by the synthesis not only of individuals, but of the entire zoological shoot.
Thus we find ourselves in the presence, in actual possession, of the super-organism we have sought, of whose existence we were intuitively aware.
Anatomy of the Noosphere
But if we look for it, we can observe exactly the same phenomenon in the case of a machine. When Homo faber arose, the first basic tool was born as an appendage of the human body. George Gaylord Simpson, The Role of the Individual in Evolution, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol.
No, it is true (at least not yet, not down here) synthesis pushed to the point where it is a new kind of autonomous super-center in the depths of the.
The Physiology of the Noosphere
I will now add that it is by the continued operation of the same movement that the race persists and functions. We have only to consider the evolution of the nervous system in the animal series, which proceeds in chronological stages over a great period of time. It is in this sense alone, as I believe, that the horizon appears and we can get a clear view of the human world around us.
In the eyes of nineteenth-century science, the internalization of the world, which leads to the phenomenon of Reflection, can still pass for an accident and an anomaly.
The Phases and Future of the Noosphere
And it is in the depths and by the grace of this new inner sphere, the attribute of the planetized Life, that an event seems possible which has hitherto been incapable of realization: I mean the penetration of the human mass by the power of sympathy . As regards the strictly phenomenal point of view which I have adopted throughout this paper, it seems to me. What first made man first, as we know, was the raising of individual consciousness to the point where it acquired the power of Reflection.
Like the petals of a giant lotus at the end of the day, we have seen human petals of planetary dimensions slowly approaching themselves.
Faith in Man
- Definition and Novelty
- Power and Ambiguity
- The Uniting Force
In the course of a few generations, almost without our realizing it, our view of the world has been profoundly changed. We see no one else in the service of the world, or we run the risk of seeing no one else. It can be said, in the wake of the war, that this need is spontaneous and.
It is true that at the outset it presupposes a certain fundamental conception of Man's place in Nature.
Some Reflections on the Rights of Man
When we take this changed position, it immediately becomes clear that the purpose of a new Declaration of Human Rights cannot be this way. Thus transposed into the framework of a two-variable operation (the progressive, interdependent adjustment of the two processes of collectivization and personalization) the question of human rights does not admit of a simple or general answer. The individual's relative right to be placed in circumstances most favorable to his personal development.
The absolute right of the individual, within the social organism, not to be deformed by external coercion, but to reorganize inwardly by persuasion, that is, in accordance with his personal gifts and aspirations.
The Human Rebound of Evolution and its Consequences
- Introduction. The Rebounding of Evolution
- Emergence of the Finality
- The Control and Preservation of Purposive Thinking
- Conclusion. Something New under the Sun
However small the growth, however small the seed, it is precisely here that the power of renewal and restoration of the living world is concentrated. What and how many are these fundamental properties, these conditio sine qua non-conditions, which we are obliged to postulate and assume to be incorporated into the structure of the surrounding world, if evolution, henceforth hominized, is to proceed. Let me simply note that here we may have a basis for predicting, in the broadest sense of the word, the religious evolution of the world tomorrow.
In short, as I said at the beginning, the earthly evolution of Life, if it really is to continue as hominization expanded to the scale of the.
The Position of Man in Nature and the Significance of Human
Human reflection is not an epi-phenomenon of the organic world, but the central phenomenon of vitalization. Considered thus, everything in world history takes shape, and what is better, everything moves forward. The Church is neither an epi- nor a para-phenomenon in the growth of the human social organism, but constitutes the very axis (or nucleus) around which it forms.
For those who are accustomed to see in the phenomenon of religion nothing more than a purely conventional association of spirits the sphere of the.
The Directions and Conditions of the Future
- The General Tendencies
The deeper vision I have in mind may be said to be conveyed to our senses by the increased power of our instruments. And here, when the General Tendencies are established, the question of the conditions of the future arises. I'm not specifically referring to the possibility of a cosmic catastrophe that could prematurely destroy the Earth.
The supposed duration of all human development (several million years) is so small compared to the extent of.
The Essence of the Democratic Idea: A Biological
- The Present Evolutionary State of Mankind
- Biological Definition and Interpretation of the Spirit of Democracy
- The Technique of Democracies
Let us first apply this principle to the legendary qualities, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, which in our minds are inextricably associated with the idea of government of the people by the people; and then to the conflict, now more acute than ever, which has always divided. Equality: the right of every human being, according to his aptitudes and abilities, to participate in the common endeavor to promote, each by way of the other, the future of the individual and the species. Indeed, is it not this need and legitimate demand to participate in the Human Affair (the need that every man feels to live together with mankind) that, deeper than any desire for material gain, today drives those classes and races into agitation brings so far 'left out of the game'.
Very correctly, a large number of UNESCO's questions deal with examination and criticism of the existing forms and methods regarding
Does Mankind Move Biologically Upon Itself? Galileo’s
- The First Point (beyond dispute): The Material Fact of the in- folding of Mankind upon itself
- The Second Point (which now emerges): The Biological Value of Human Socialization
Is it Life that we see on the horizon, hidden behind the rise of the masses, or is it Death. The first point (beyond dispute): The material fact of the folding of humanity in on itself is the folding of humanity in on itself. Let's try to get an idea of the speed (the rising curve, if you prefer) of this process of folding over the period of a single generation.
1 is no longer a decision about whether we can avoid the social-physical twisting of the human race in on itself, as it is irrevocably forced upon us by the physico-chemical structure of the Earth.
