The Phenomenon of Man

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 113
EAN: 9780060904951
ISBN: 006090495X
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 1976-01-24
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 1975-12-24
Studio: Harper Perennial

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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.

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Summary: way ahead of his time
Comment: Teilhard de Chardin was way ahead of his time. The Phenomenon of Man is fascinating to read, especially because the series of events on Earth since the book was written has provided a lot of support for Teilhard de Chardin's ideas. The author was a visionary who perceived the evolution of Homo sapiens in both biological and spiritual contexts, and used the interplay between his scientific and religious training to synthesize a completely original and shockingly accurate model of humanity.

Hardcore biologists will find plenty of holes in de Chardin's scientific arguments (remember that the role of genetics in evolution had not been realized at the time when this book was written). Likewise, theologists will find plenty of fodder for argument. But anyone who takes the time to read this book with an open mind will learn something valuable about the connectedness of people everywhere. The phenomenon described here is neither purely scientific, nor purely religious, but it goes a long way towards explaining how people are destined to work together for a better future.

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Summary: Teilhard de Chardin
Comment: I am just loving this book. This man is a genius. I am having to read every chapter twice because there's just so much to learn. I highly recommend this book. I've been interested in the subject of the "evolution of matter" for a while and I've finally come across this source. It is a look at the information within matter in its role as that which integrates and complexifies matter from subatomic particle to atom to molecule to cell to organism and so on. And so Chardin goes on to propose that the development or evolution of matter follows a direction and, this direction is "complexification", in other words, becoming increasingly more complex. Also deeply ingrained within this perspective is the notion that as smaller units integrate to form more complex ones, the larger units that result are "a unit" rather than a mere conglomeration of parts. And the reason behind this is that when several units of matter (i.e. subatomic particles) integrate to form a single larger unit (i.e. an atom) the information within each component comes to comprise a single fundamental unit, just as would occur in verbal information where a bunch of letters form a single word the latter of which only makes sense as a single unit. If you're curious about this subject read "The Phenomenon of Man".

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Summary: Teilhard de Chardin is a must read for those in conflict.
Comment: I am not going to argue points as the author can do that for him self. I will say, many people surpassingly arrive at the same conclusions independently of this work. The few negative reviews are because of a disagreements not that this book is negative in any way. Even with all of today's scientific discoveries the truth in his extrapolations still hold up. However I would listen to "Dinosaur in a Haystack : Reflections in Natural History", efore reading Book 2, chapter 2, section 3 "THE TREE OF LIFE".

This is a five star book no matter what side of the argument you are on. Listen to Teilhard de Chardin's words coming from Oskar Werner as Fr. David Telemond in "Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)"

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Summary: The Phenomenon of Man
Comment: The theories of Omega presented in this book are still possibile to be true even though it was written before 1948. The book was an important one to read for me given my own scientific theories. The books theories like "Love as Energy" fit nicely with my own "Monogamy Theory" and "Boom-Arm or "Ray" Theory of Sexual Behavior. I was a little concerned that Teilhard de Chardin was going to say something racist a couple of times when he wrote about evolution(the book was written a while ago, and it is often necessary to think about race when thinking about evolution), but the resolution was good. When I bought the book, I was told the author was a Jesuit priest, but he was a scientist through and through and could not really talk about God or Jesus.

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Summary: Teilhard Is More Relevant Today
Comment: Teilhard was ahead of his time by about fifty years...no, more. We are just now beginning to understand the dazzling cosmology that existed in his brilliant, inspired mind. As we enter the new age he predicted, an age of technology bordering on wizardry, Teilhard is our great prophet and patron saint. Joseph Dispenza is author of "God On Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion."

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