Friday, September 08, 2006

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We discussed the philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Cosmic Plenum: Teilhard's Gnosis: Cosmogenesis
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a Jesuit priest-theologian and a distinguished geologist-paleontologist, who was born in France in 1881 and died in New York City in 1955. Following teaching posts in Paris and Cairo, he was assigned to China for many years. In China, Teilhard became imbued with a vision of working to build the future.

By the future he meant more than the building up of the physical world; he envisaged the irreversible ascent, through man's collective efforts materially and mentally, to reach what he called the Omega Point