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Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Biography

Pronounced As: pyer tayär d shärdaN , 1881-1955, French paleontologist and philosopher. He entered (1899) the Jesuit order, was ordained (1911), and received a doctorate in paleontology from the Sorbonne (1922). He lectured (1920-23) at the Institut Catholique in Paris. After visiting China (1923-24), he resumed teaching at the Institut, but in 1926 he was forced by his superiors to abandon teaching and return to China because of his controversial attempts to reconcile the traditional view of original sin with his concept of evolution; at that time it was also decided that his publications should be limited to purely scientific material, a limitation that continued throughout his lifetime. Shortly after his return to China, Teilhard was named adviser to the National Geological Survey, and in that capacity he collaborated on research that resulted in the discovery (1929) of Peking man (see Homo erectus). While in China (1926-46) he also completed the manuscript of The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously, 1955; tr. 1959), in which he outlined his concept of cosmic evolution and his conviction that belief in evolution does not entail a rejection of Christianity. Evolution he saw to be a process involving all matter, not just biological material, the cosmos undergoing successively more complex changes that would lead ultimately to "Omega Point, which has been variously interpreted as the integration of all personal consciousness and as the second coming of Christ. Teilhard's evolutionism earned him the distrust of his religious superiors, while his religious mysticism made scientific circles suspicious; but despite much opposition-or perhaps because of it-there was an unusually broad popular response to his work after its posthumous publication. The interest may be explained by his boldly anthropocentric, and somewhat mystical, understanding of the cosmos: humanity for him is the axis of the cosmic flow, the key of the universe. Teilhard de Chardin's other works (all published posthumously) include Letters from a Traveller (1956, tr. 1962), The Divine Milieu (1957, tr. 1960), The Future of Man (1959, tr. 1964), Human Energy (1962, tr. 1969), Activation of Energy (1963, tr. 1971), and Hymn of the Universe (1964, tr. 1965).

Related sites

To get more informations about life and opus of Teilhard de Chardin, see the French National Teilhard Association web-site

So In Nederlands http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~sttdc/actie.htm

In Nantes (France), Michel Bay's site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.bay/

To note the brasilian site : http://www.trip.com.br/teilhard (portuguese, english and french)

In USA :"Dialogos" ( Richard Kropf) Interactive Journal of sciences, Philosophy and Theology http://dialogos3.tripod.com/index.htm

See also Joseph Provenzano web site: The Philosophy of Conscious Energy . The author is a well known physicist, specialist of artificial intelligence at the CalTech (Jet propulsion Laboratory).

and Xavier Sallantin's Observatoire/laboratoire du Sens. (English and French) The author is a mathematician who is involved in the research of the "creation software".

Philosophy : http://perso.nv2r.com/Teilhard/teilhard-perspective1.htm

In the spirit of Teilhard we can refer to The International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET) and The Transdisciplinary University of Paris (UIP)

As an exemple of growing noosphere, see also THE GLOBAL VILLAGE FRENCH QUARTER of Richmond University (Virginia USA)

FORUM

GROUP DISCUSSION

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Some Suggested Themes :

Science and faith "All growing up is converging"

Place of individualism in future society "Union makes differentiation"

Which spirit for an interconnected world society ? "Noogenesis is progressing"

What is the value of human work ? "To build the body of the new mankind (i.e. Christ for religion)"

Which criteria for economy ? "Man only can serve to man to decode the world"

Evil or Good, what is the meaning ? "We have to choose between fall in destructuration or participate to the construction of an Hyper conscious Universe(St Paul Pleroma)"

Previous meetings

J.S. Abbatucci "Importance et actualité de la conception Teilhardienne"

J.S. Abbatucci "Pouvoir de l'homme sur l'évolution. Peut-on lui fixer des limites ?"

M. Ernst "Teilhard de Chardin aujourd'hui"

G.E. Séralini "L'évolution de la matière"

J.S. Abbatucci "Evangile de la perdition, ou évolution créatrice. Confrontation Edgar Morin / Teilhard de Chardin"

Bernard Teilhard de Chardin "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, rôle de sa famille et de ses amis dans sa vocation"

M. Roulleaux,
G.E. Séralini,
D. Lépinard "Révélation et découverte scientifique"

J.S. Abbatucci,
G. Cherbit,
J.L. Dumas,
J. Signoret "La montée du complexe - du big-bang à nos jours"
"Lalande contre Spencer : la dissolution s'oppose-t-elle à l'évolution"

"De l'oeuf à l'individu organisé : le paradoxe de la compléxité"

J.S. Abbatucci "La religion peut-elle et doit-elle se rapprocher des données de la science ?"

G.E. Séralini
M.J. Deshayes "Plasticité de l'évolution"

J.S. Abbatucci "L'émergence d'une conscience planétaire : Mythe ou réalité"

J. Provenzano
J.S. Abbatucci
"L'énergie consciente" ("Conscious energy").
Analyse du livre et discussion.
J. Provenzano, physicien et mathématicien (et philosophe) au CalTech (Institut de technologie de Californie)

Science and faith	"All growing up is converging"
Place of individualism in future society	"Union makes differentiation"
Which spirit for an interconnected world society ?	"Noogenesis is progressing"
What is the value of human work ?	"To build the body of the new mankind (i.e. Christ for religion)"
Which criteria for economy ?	"Man only can serve to man to decode the world"
Evil or Good, what is the meaning ?	"We have to choose between fall in destructuration or participate to the construction of an Hyper conscious Universe(St Paul Pleroma)"

J.S. Abbatucci	"Importance et actualité de la conception Teilhardienne"
J.S. Abbatucci	"Pouvoir de l'homme sur l'évolution. Peut-on lui fixer des limites ?"
M. Ernst	"Teilhard de Chardin aujourd'hui"
G.E. Séralini	"L'évolution de la matière"
J.S. Abbatucci	"Evangile de la perdition, ou évolution créatrice. Confrontation Edgar Morin / Teilhard de Chardin"
Bernard Teilhard de Chardin	"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, rôle de sa famille et de ses amis dans sa vocation"
M. Roulleaux, G.E. Séralini, D. Lépinard	"Révélation et découverte scientifique"
J.S. Abbatucci, G. Cherbit, J.L. Dumas, J. Signoret	"La montée du complexe - du big-bang à nos jours" "Lalande contre Spencer : la dissolution s'oppose-t-elle à l'évolution" "De l'oeuf à l'individu organisé : le paradoxe de la compléxité"
J.S. Abbatucci	"La religion peut-elle et doit-elle se rapprocher des données de la science ?"
G.E. Séralini M.J. Deshayes	"Plasticité de l'évolution"
J.S. Abbatucci	"L'émergence d'une conscience planétaire : Mythe ou réalité"
J. Provenzano J.S. Abbatucci	"L'énergie consciente" ("Conscious energy"). Analyse du livre et discussion. J. Provenzano, physicien et mathématicien (et philosophe) au CalTech (Institut de technologie de Californie)