It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act
of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian
of the «phenomenon
of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility
of «seeing»,
of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts»
of history and
human development that are taking place within the wider
spectrum of the
movement of the
human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level
of its manifestation.