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@article{ART002026809},
author={Sung-Dong KIM},
title={Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications},
journal={Philosophical Investigation},
issn={1598-7213},
year={2015},
volume={39},
pages={67-105},
doi={10.33156/philos.2015.39..003}

TY - JOUR
AU - Sung-Dong KIM
TI - Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications
JO - Philosophical Investigation
PY - 2015
VL - 39
IS - null
PB - Institute of philosophy in Chung-Ang Univ.
SP - 67
EP - 105
SN - 1598-7213
AB - Through the combination of his scientific insights with his theological intuition. Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), French geologist, paleontologist, and Catholic priest, suggested the evolutionary cosmology that the cosmos evolve from the Big-Bang to the Omega Point. According to it, the cosmos evolve through corpusculization with regard to Without and through love - the affinity of being with being with regard to Within. This article analyzes his understanding of love as the power of cosmic evolution and the power that the mankind should harness for the facilitate this cosmic evolution, and examines its implications for the contemporary situations. Based on his ontology, Teilhard understood love as the omnipresent energy. According to his thoughts, love exists in all levels of beings, and the cosmos evolves by the energy of love. The decisive level of such evolution is human being, and the human reflective autonomous love can play its own roles in the evolution of the cosmos, unlike another beings’ compulsory love. The three stages of human love are sexual, humane, and cosmic love. Teilhard’s discussions on these loves provide the persuasive bases for the attitude of the moderns to sexuality, for the human attempt to change his own nature as exemplified by Mo-tzu, and for the ecological movements that are increasing gradually.
KW - Teilhard de Chardin;Love;Today;Omnipresence;Energy
DO - 10.33156/philos.2015.39..003
ER -

Sung-Dong KIM. (2015). Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications. Philosophical Investigation, 39, 67-105.

Sung-Dong KIM. 2015, "Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications", Philosophical Investigation, vol.39, pp.67-105. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM "Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications" Philosophical Investigation 39 pp.67-105 (2015) : 67.

Sung-Dong KIM. Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications. 2015; 39 67-105. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM. "Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications" Philosophical Investigation 39(2015) : 67-105.doi: 10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM. Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications. Philosophical Investigation, 39, 67-105. doi: 10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM. Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications. Philosophical Investigation. 2015; 39 67-105. doi: 10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM. Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications. 2015; 39 67-105. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2015.39..003

Sung-Dong KIM. "Teilhard de Chardin’s Understanding of Love and Its Contemporary Implications" Philosophical Investigation 39(2015) : 67-105.doi: 10.33156/philos.2015.39..003