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A Great Event Foreshadowed: The Planetization of Mankind
Written in Peking in December 1945. Published in the August-September 1946 edition of Cahiers du Monde Nouveau with the title La planétisation humaine.
Cosmic Life
Cosmic Life was the first of Teilhard’s extant writings in his characteristic style. Knowing what risks he was exposed to at the warfront, he wrote it as his ‘intellectual testament,’ and it contains in embryo all that was later to be developed in his thought; the ‘fire in his vision’ which he tried to communicate. The essay was posthumously published in the 1955 book Writings in Time of War.
From the Pre-Human to the Ultra-Human: The Phases of a Living Planet
First published in Almanach des Sciences, 1951, then in The Future of Mankind.
How May We Conceive And Hope That Human Unanimization Will Be Realized On Earth?
Written in Paris and published posthumously in The Future of Man.
Life and the Planets
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin explores the concept of complexification in the universe, focusing on the ever-increasing combination of smaller elements into larger structures, and then extrapolates this behavior to humanity's current situation. What if the human species is an intermediary evolutionary stage, and what would the next rung on the ladder look like? Teilhard suggests that it will involve the merging-together of all humanity into a divine, planetized consciousness. Originally delivered as a lecture at the French Embassy in Peking (Beijing), China, later published in Études and The Future of Man.
On The Probable Existence Ahead Of Us Of An ‘Ultra-Human’
An originally unpublished essay, written in Paris, in which Teilhard talks about a vast realm of the Ultra-Human which lies ahead of us: a realm in which we shall not be able to survive, or super-live, except by developing and embracing on earth, to the utmost extent, all the powers of common vision and unanimazation that are available to us. Eventually published in The Future of Man.
Survival, Part 1: Before Life Came
Survival, Part 2: Life
Survival, Part 3: Thought
Survival, Part 4: Survival
The Atomism of Spirit
An attempt to understand the structure of the stuff of the universe, written in Peking (Beijing). Published in Activation of Energy.
The Convergence of the Universe
The End of the Species
Written in New York and published a year later in Psyché.
The Formation of the Noösphere
From the Revue des Questions Scientifiques (Louvain).
The Human Rebound of Evolution and its Consequences
This essay, published in Revue des Questions Scientifiques in 1948 and reprinted in The Future of Man, follows Teilhard's train of thought on the aftermath of a potential fusing-together of humanity.
The Phenomenon of Man
Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin applied his whole life, his tremendous intellect, and his great spiritual faith to building a philosophy that would reconcile religion with the scientific theory of evolution. In this timeless book (whose original French title better translates to ‘The Human Phenomenon’), Teilhard argues that just as living organisms sprung from inorganic matter and evolved into ever more complex thinking beings, humans are evolving toward an "omega point"—defined by Teilhard as a convergence with the Divine.
The Phyletic Structure of the Human Group
The Place of Technology in a General Biology of Mankind
Teilhard argues that biology and technology are the same thing: technology is simply advanced biology which has reached a minimum threshold of self-awareness, allowing it to influence its evolutionary development through intelligent organization of matter and energy. Written after an address given in Paris at the Salle d’horticulture (National Society of Horticulture).
The Transformation and Continuation in Man of the Mechanism of Evolution