Word: chardin
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This evolutionary striving, he feels, is the means and end and sanction of life. In this, he has been strongly influenced by the thought of the late French Jesuit philosopher-anthropologist, Father Teilhard de Chardin (TIME, Feb. 10). "But the striving and aspiring must be social to be fruitful." Vercors insists. "The yogi working by himself for himself is a dead end. In my book, the forms and standards of society are represented by Richwick-that's why he may seem something of a prig. But it is these very forms, personified in Richwick, that give Sylva a direction...
These questions have been asked so often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from...
...your excellent review of The Phenomenon of Man by the late Father Teilhard de Chardin [Dec. 14], it is interesting that this perceptive priest has restated so clearly a number of old ideas: 1) His concept of a "thinking envelope" or"noosphere" surrounding the earth, 2) the evolution of consciousness culminating in self-awareness, 3) the apparent plurality but fundamental unity of everything in a universe held together by an inexorably harmonious binding force (love...