TagJacques Monod

  In Le Hasard et la Nécessité, Jacques Monod argues for a worldview based on scientific knowledge that acknowledges that humans are the product of chance. He believes that the contradiction between scientific progress and materialist values is the source of modern anxiety, and that humans must overcome their existential crisis by rejecting materialism and adopting a socialist ideal based on...

Le Hasard et la Nécessité by Jacques Monod is a philosophical account of the life sciences, particularly molecular biology, and explores whether the boundary between the artificial and the natural can be logically categorized. The author attempts to distinguish between the two concepts through criteria such as regularity, repetition, and rationality, but through various counterexamples, he shows...