Teilhard's Vision of the Past : : The Making of a Method / / Robert J. O'Connell.

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 ea...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (205 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 "Seeing": Teilhard and the "New Positivism"
  • 2 Seeing With an Educated Eye
  • 3 Seeing "Wholes"
  • 4 Science as History and Product of History
  • 5 Science, "Hypothesis," and the Reality of Evolution
  • 6 Entropy vs. Evolution
  • 7 Toward a New Science of the Past
  • 8 Crisis and Faith: In Evolution
  • 9 The Phenomenon of Man: A Scientific Memoire
  • 10 Toward Evaluating Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Appropriate Questions
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index