The aim of the article is to present briefly the ethical concept of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French monk, paleobiologist and a thinker. Good, happiness and love are those three strongly related categories that define Teilhard’s dynamic ethics. Since his main goal was to retain the dynamic character of the „new morality”, the French monk rejected any „decalogues”, rules and norms. All he proposed were general rules of dynamic ethics. However, „new morality” is not entirely directed towards individualism, but it is rather concentrated on improving individual’s personality as well as on the development of humankind in general. Such process is possible because the act of personalization takes place in the atmosphere of love. It is love, not the mind, that constitutes the basis for the concept of dynamic ethics proposed by the thinker. Happiness is considered to be a „side effect of effort”, a byproduct achieved by a person engaged in the process of personalization of the world. According to Teilhard’s opinion, evil is threaded in the structure of the world, as it has regress or any threat of it - a process contradicting evolution, as its source.
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