Towards the Noosphere - Futures Singular and Plural by John M. Dillon

by John M. Dillon

This paperback continues the explorations begun in the Prometheus Trust's small paperback Platonism and the World Crisis. The two essays contained in this new book address the broad question, "What is to be done?" In the first, Towards the Noosphere, Professor John M Dillon explores the writings of Plotinus, Origen, and Teilhard de Chardin in order to consider the nature of the universe in which we live - and from their insights to consider the goals towards which we strive. In the second, Futures Singular and Plural, Professor Stephen R L Clark examines further speculations upon these matters from more recent theorists writing in disciplines of philosophy, science and science fiction.

Mass Market Paperback

First published February 5, 2013

About the author

John Myles Dillon (/ˈdɪlən/; born 15 September 1939) is an Irish classicist and philosopher who was Regius Professor of Greek in Trinity College, Dublin between 1980 and 2006. Prior to that he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens on 15 June 2010. Dillon's area of research lies in the history of Platonism from the Old Academy to the Renaissance, and also Early Christianity.