Jean Rostand was a humanist true: Unable to consider dune "revelation", alone are worth, in my eyes, the beliefs that can form in the mind of man from material supplied by science or by the free thinking. Truth is in front, not behind us.
Lhomme na else way of knowing that his reason. It does not need to fraudulent paris where Pascal makes us the blow of the anguish and infinity.
Jean Rostand was also a true democrat: I think the idea democratic triumph without reservations, that the advantage of the large number nen come to prevail over the interest of a few.
Inert and living matter, the man and the pet
For Jean Rostand, the discovery of virus-protein markedly reduced the interval between the molecular world and the vital world. The nature of the psyche is a biological reality, essential and ubiquitous. Consciousness (mind) is to the state potential or latent in every cell of every organism. It is linked indissolubly to its material substrate.
For the author, it is inconceivable, even scandalous, put a clean cut between the man and lanimalité. It nexiste us to the pet, quune difference quantity and not quality point because we are of the same substance that the beast.
Evolution and Determinism
For Jean Rostand, evolution does not include a single goal. The evolutionary lineage that sacheva by Genesis lhumain nest that one of the countless lines between which sest distributed the progression of life.
It also reminds us that one day the earth, like any planet must cease BE a habitable world, and that this final sinking, can escape any of the outcomes of the effort human.
As for determinism, Jean Rostand does not believe in freedom because every action is strictly determined at the time what saccomplit by the competition lhérédité and environment.
Happy are
those who, having succeeded in their sexonérer me know accept without revolt alarms and dispossessions quinflige existence. They can look death in the face without cling to that miserable ersatz dimmortalité quest persistence of memory in the minds of men.
In no event légoïsme helps create laptitude happiness.
Comment
Democracy as lentendait Jean Rostand sest not carried quen appearance. As Paul Krugman said in The Conscience of a Liberal, United States, for example, never a president was elected without supporting the forces of money, they are financial or earth. Moreover, as the said Ola Tunander (Government of the Shadows Ed. Eric Wilson) in the Western world, there are two governments, elected for a predetermined time, and a hidden permanent, formed by the army and secret services. Furthermore, the forces of money control the fourth estate, the media have become pure propaganda vehicles to direct speech and vote in favor of those who control the permanent power.
A controversial point is the determinism of Jean Rostand. In this respect, I prefer the vision Darthur Schopenhauer explained in his essay On Liberty of will: the will is not free. The actions of man, like everything else in nature, are necessary effects, ä subject to the law of causality. All patterns are causes and all causality carries with it a necessity. Man is capable of weighing the pros and cons. It is therefore relatively free. But this only means that the type of motivation is changed, not the need of the effect of the pattern.
This short sharp text should be read by all men and all women of good will.
