Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Making of a Method
The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has been characterized as metaphysics, poetry, and mysticism-virtually everything except what its author claimed it was: a purely scientific mémoir. Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest of clues, uncovered first in an early unpublished essay, then in the series of essays contained principally in The Vision of the Past. Those clues all point to Teilhard's intimate familiarity with the philosophy of science propounded by the celebrated Pierre Duhem. It was Duhem's central claim that science, to remain true to itself, must aim at establishing a genuine natural classification phenomen…
Mehr
CHF 80.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V105:
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-1090-9
- EAN: 9780823210909
- Produktnummer: 6388091
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 205 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 458 g
- Gewicht: 458
Über den Autor
Robert J. O'Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O'Connell established the O'Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.
11 weitere Werke von Robert J. O'Connell:
Bewertungen
Anmelden