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Name: Karim A. Hashem

SID: 900120592
Date: 16/2/2017
Instructor: Dr. Osama Andrew Young
Integral Philosophers (Hegel, Bregson, Teilhard)

Hegel was known as the first integral philosopher, not that he

was the first integral philosopher ever, but he was the first to notice

integral living and to draw everyones attention to it as well. Hegels

main focus was on the human awareness and conscious. His integral

philosophy was called dialectic. In other words, consciousness grows

through interactions with society. His dialectic philosophy was dynamic,

which meant consciousness and knowledge grow by conflict and

confrontation. Also, that they are part of an overarching process.

Hegel, also, brought peoples attention to reason and order in human

history and that the process of becoming is the essential idea of the

universe, which opened a path to new thoughts beyond modernist

consciousness and mere understanding also known as Hegels Mature

Reason.

Bregson, on the other hand, was the complete opposite of Hegel.

Bregson was mainly focused on spiritual interpretation of science,

intuition. Bregson was able to discover evolution before Darwin did;

however, his evolution is of a different type. Bergsons evolution was

called Creative Evolution, later to be his best publication. His

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perceived reality to be a creative process, which is why his philosophy

urged to view intuition over analysis as it grasps a more complete

version of the truth or at least a bigger part of it than analysis, which is

looking in details. He believed that intuition drove people to

individuality and complexity as a result of freedom of choice.

Unfortunately, his philosophy would not live for long due to the rights

of existentialism and phenomenology.

Unlike both Hegel and Bregson, Teilhard was a paleontologist and

a priest, who was able to view both sides science and spiritually. Hegel

was mainly focused with science and reasons while Bregson focused on

spiritually. Teilhard developed thresholds for Darwins evolution theory

in forms of spheres. All spheres were enclosed one another. First was

the Physio-sphere, which consists of all evolution prior life from the big

bang to the creation of matter and planets formation. Second was the

Biosphere, which was the emergence of conscious life starting from the

first bacteria. Last was the Noosphere, which is the psychological

change between conscious life & self-consciousness, in order words,

humans. Some scientists disagree with Teilhard about distinguishing

between the second and third spheres and view them as one sphere.

Unlike Hegel, Teilhard believes in the spiritualization of the cosmos, as

in the source of becoming is from above pulling us to transcend, while

Hegel believed it to be conflict and confrontation. Finally, Teilhard came

up with the law of complexity, which is directly related to

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consciousness. The more complex a being is the more consciousness it

possess and vice versa.