Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [SEP] native language
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( (); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving), and he developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.
Although a "monitum" was issued in regard to some of Teilhard's ideas,
at Georgetown. A member of the American Teilhard Association, he has written or edited several books on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, including "Teilhard's Mysticism of Knowing" (1981), "Teilhard and the Unity of Knowledge" (1983) "Teilhard de Chardin" (1988), "The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan" (1993) and "Teilhard's Mass" (2005). His other works include "Sartre and the Sacred" (1974), "Enchantments: Religion and the