Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Making of a Method Tapa blanda - 1982

Fordham University Press. Used - Very Good. Fordham University Press. Bronx, NY, 1982. Paperback. 8vo. Book is Near Fine.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Covers rubbed, little soiled. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 205 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Philosophy. ISBN/EAN: 9780823210916. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Wrapper edges worn, light brown stain on front wrapper. 1982 Trade Paperback. 205 pp. 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 memoir. Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest of clues, uncovered first in an early unpublished essay, then in the series of essays contained principally in The Vision of the Past.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 classificationphenomenal reality. That insight, Professor O'Connell argues, guided Teilhard's lifelong effort to describe the imposed reality-factorswhich science in its variety of forms suggests as… Leer más

Fordham University Press, 1982. Very Good softcover . Softcover. Very Good.

Fordham University Press, 1982-01-01. Paperback. Good.