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Thursday, September 19, 2019

The optimism of Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of the future is essentially optimistic, perhaps too much. In his book The Phenomenon of Man he outlines his vision of the future evolution of human beings, which he presents as a process of increasing convergence towards a unifying center with the appropriate name of Omega Point.
By studying the unifying process that should take us to the next stage (or the final point) of our evolution, Teilhard distinguishes three different areas: