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BL
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871794
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Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
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| Title & Author
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The phenomenon of man /\ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ; with an introduction by Julian Huxley.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Perennial Library,, 1975.
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320 pages ;; 21 cm
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006090495X
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: 9780060904951
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Translation of Le Phńomène humain.
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| Contents
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Book one. Before life came. The stuff of the universe: Elemental matter ; Total matter ; The evolution of matter -- The within of things: Existence ; The qualitative laws of growth ; Spiritual energy -- The earth in its early stages: The without ; The within -- Book Two. Life. The advent of life: The transit to life ; The initial manifestations of life ; The season of life -- The expansion of life: The elemental movements of life ; A corollary: the ways of life ; The ramifications of the living mass ; The tree of life -- Demeter: Ariadne's thread ; The rise of consciousness ; The approach of time -- Book three. Thought. The birth of thought: The threshold of reflection ; The original forms -- The deployment of the Noosphere: The ramifying phase of the pre-hominids ; The group of the Neanderthaloids ; The Homo Sapiens complex ; The Neolithic metamorphosis ; The prolongations of the Neolithic age and the rise of the West -- The modern earth: The discovery of evolution ; The problem of action -- Book four. Survival. The collective issue: The confluence of thought ; The spirit of the earth -- Beyond the collective: the hyper-personal: The convergence of the person and the Omega point ; Love as energy ; The attributes of the Omega point -- The ultimate earth: Prognostics to be set aside ; The approaches ; The ultimate -- The Christian phenomenon: Axes of belief ; Existence-value ; Power of growth -- The essence of the phenomenon of man: A world in involution ; The first appearance of man ; The social phenomenon -- Appendix. Some remarks on the place and part of evil in a world in evolution.
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Synthesizes science and religious thought to chronicle the evolution of humankind, from the formation of Earth through the development of life and the human mind, and further, proposing a future end state.
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Cosmology.
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Evolution.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Anthropology.
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Biological Evolution.
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Philosophy.
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Cosmology.
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Evolution.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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| Dewey Classification
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113
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| LC Classification
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BD512.T413 1975
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