Chance and Need

Chance and Need. Test on the natural philosophy of modern biology is a test of the biologist Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize of medicine in 1965. This test treats projections of the Génétique and Molecular biology and of their philosophical consequences . Concepts of genetic Code, " révélation" epigenetic is in particular presented, while the Animisme, the Vitalisme and the Prédéterminisme, as well as dialectic materialism are seen refuted.

Synopsis

  • Foreword

Of strange objects
  • Vitalisms and animisms The scientific judgment of the Prédéterminisme contains.
    1. the demons of Cybernetic Maxwell
    2. microscopic
    3. molecular Ontogenesis
    4. Invariance and disturbances
    5. Evolution
    6. the borders
    7. the kingdom and darkness
    • Appendices

    Quotation

    " Old alliance is broken; the man knows finally that it is alone in the indifferent vastness of the Universe from where it emerged by chance. Either that its destiny, its duty is not written nowhere. With him to choose between the Kingdom and the ténèbres."

    Sources

    J. Monod, chance and need: Test on the natural philosophy of modern biology , Threshold, 1970

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