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O'Connell, Robert J.

 
9780823210909: Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Making of a Method
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ISBN 10 : 0823210901 ISBN 13 : 9780823210909
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 1982

Synopsis

The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has been characterized as metaphysics, poetry, and mysticism-virtually everything except what its author claimed it was: a "purely scientific mémoir." Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest of clues, uncovered first in an early unpublished essay, then in the series of essays contained principally in The Vision of the Past. Those clues all point to Teilhard's intimate familiarity with the philosophy of science propounded by the celebrated Pierre Duhem. It was Duhem's central claim that science, to remain true to itself, must aim at establishing a genuine "natural classification" phenomenal reality. That insight, Professor O'Connell argues, guided Teilhard's lifelong effort to describe the "imposed reality-factors" which science in its variety of forms suggests as ingredients and operative at every phase in the evolutionary development of planet Earth. Limiting his focus to the way Teilhard unfolded his vision of the past, Professor O'Connell concludes that those who deprecate Teilhard as unscientific betray little awareness of how sophisticated his understanding of science truly was.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert J. O'Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O'Connell established the O'Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
1982
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823210901
ISBN 13 
9780823210909
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
205
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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