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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il fenomeno umano (1955)di Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. U-3 Pierre Teilhard De Chardin was one of the most distinguished thinkers and scientists of our time. He fits into no familiar category for he was at once a biologist and a paleontologist of world renown, and also a Jesuit priest. He applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile Christian theology with the scientific theory of evolution, to relate the facts of religious experience to those of natural science. The Phenomenon of Man, the first of his writings to appear in America, Pierre Teilhard's most important book and contains the quintessence of his thought. When published in France it was the best-selling nonfiction book of the year. This book has interesting ideas. Some of them I could believe in. Unfortunately, many of Teilhard's arguments are poorly constructed and teleological. His idea of noosphere reminds me of things I've read in works by Hofstadter, which I find very intriguing. But his approach is based on religious motives and his style is that of pseudo-science, so I'll stick with books by Hofstadter, Dennett, Rucker, etc.
It is a book widely held to be of the utmost profundity and significance; it created something like a sensation upon its publication in France, and some reviewers hereabouts called it the Book of the Year — one, the Book of the Century. Yet the greater part of it, I shall show, is nonsense, tricked out with a variety of metaphysical conceits, and its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself. ... It would have been a great disappointment to me if Vibration did not did not somewhere make itself felt, for all scientistic mystics either vibrate in person or find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations; but I am happy to say that on page 266 Teilhard will be found to do so. ... In spite of all the obstacles that Teilhard perhaps wisely puts in our way, it is possible to discern a train of thought in The Phenomenon of Man. ... I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose. ... How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind, for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought. ... I have read and studied The Phenomenon of Man with real distress, even with despair. Instead of wringing our hands over the Human Predicament, we should attend to those parts of it which are wholly remediable, above all to the gullibility which makes it possible for people to be taken in by such a bag of tricks as this. If it were an innocent, passive gullibility it would be excusable; but all too clearly, alas, it is an active willingness to be deceived. Ha come guida per lo studente
Se osservassimo il cielo stellato con l'ausilio di un telescopio e con la guida di un esperto astronomo ci invaderebbe un sentimento di stupore. Affondare lo sguardo della mente in tutta la dimensione spazio-temporale dell'universo accompagnati da Pierre Teilhard de Chardin dona una sensazione altrettanto straordinaria. © un viaggio entusiasmante alla ricerca delle nostre pi©£ lontane origini, per individuare le tenui tracce che portano all'Uomo. E, soprattutto, per capire se l'intero moto evolutivo abbia una direzione privilegiata e miri a un ulteriore, fecondo sviluppo. Teilhard de Chardin prende in considerazione la totalit© del fenomeno: non solo l'Uomo come espressione ultima della materia altamente organizzata, ma anche l'Uomo che mira a prolungare l'evoluzione nel ℗±pi©£ essere℗ e nello spirituale. © una affascinante concezione unitaria dell'avventura umana inserita nell'avventura dell'universo: una visione altamente incoraggiante. (editore) Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche
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