P & Teilhard ----goes out for Ish

[Mark Kohut]

Looks, then, like a mistake in the book. Which is why 1944 seemed unbelievable. 

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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I could find a quotation from the same article. It is dated 1946:
> « Quelques réflexions sur le retentissement spirituel de la bombe atomique » (Etudes, septembre 1946).
> You can find it online here: https://sniadecki.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/teilhard-bombe-atomique/
> Your quote seems to be in paragraph 3: « Comme si le devoir de tout homme ne consistait pas en définitive à pousser jusqu’au bout toutes les puissances créatives de la connaissance et de l’action ! ».
> Teilhard was a Jesuit!
> 
> Best,
> Clément
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 8:06 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This was quoted in a 1971 work called Philosophy & Human Nature. (Obviously
>> this is the introductory line beginning "that authority"..
>> Quoted as I reprinted it. That's all I know.
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:01 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > 1944? Is this the first publication date? Or the composition date? Or what?
>> > This essay or Chapter VIII of _the Future of Man_ is dated September 1946.
>> >
>> > It begins in the "bad lands" of Arizona.
>> > Is this an error? Are the men in Arizona? The test in Nevada?
>> >
>> > Also of note,  it alludes to Bikini (July 1946), and references the
>> > New Yorker article 18 August  1945, but never mentions the bombings of
>> > Japan.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:33 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > "That authority on the noosphere, the future of mankind and Point Omega,
>> > > the mystical scientist, Teilhard de Chardin, scoffed at the mere idea
>> > that
>> > > the atom bomb
>> > > should not have been developed"---"As if anything could [or should?] stop
>> > > the onmarch [sic. translated, of course]
>> > > of knowledge."
>> > >                     *   Some Reflections of the Spiritual Repercussions
>> > of
>> > > the Atom Bomb, *1944
>> > >
>> > > 1944...!!!!! I emphasize.
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