Les extraterrestres ne cessent pas de nous fasciner : leur existence, leur allure, leurs mœurs occupent nos laboratoires de recherche comme nos fictions ! Rien d’étonnant : ils nous conduisent hors des sentiers battus de nos savoirs et de nos croyances. Et pourtant, avant de nous questionner sur un éventuel contact avec des êtres venus d’ailleurs, il est important de nous intéresser à ce que cette curiosité révèle de nous-mêmes. Les questions se multiplient mais une première s’impose : « Q...

With his particular questioning style, Jacques Arnould takes us on a journey through the history of space exploration and utilization from a multidisciplinary perspective. This book deals with philosophical and societal questions, national and international policy, legal and responsibility aspects. By asking the right questions, Jacques helps us understand many of the questions most humans ask themselves about why, what, for whom, for how long and how humanity will (or should) expand its p...

We live in an evolving and increasingly complex global community and with this complexity comes a broad range of ethical issues. The Ethics: Contemporary Perspectives brings together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including disciplines as diverse as philosophy, law, medicine and the study of world religions, to discuss these broad ethical issues in contemporary society. Its aim is explore our complex world, addressing both old and new ethical issues thr...

Pourquoi l'ethique devrait-elle preoccuper particulierement les agences spatiales et les industries ? Bien sur, le comportement ethique devrait etre une preoccupation majeure pour nous tous dans toutes les professions, mais en raison de la nature particuliere des activites spatiales - leurs depenses, leur danger, leur visibilite publique, leurs defis et leurs opportunites uniques - l'espace et la reflexion ethique doivent aller de pair. (Jim Dator) L'espace est-il devenu une poubelle ? Est...

'A cloth spread under an apple tree can catch only apples', wrote Antoine de Saint Exupery in Terre des hommes (Land of Men), (English title: Wind, Sand and Stars), 'and a cloth spread under stars can catch only stardust ... What was most marvellous was that, there, standing on the planet's rounded back, between this magnetic cloth and those stars, was a man's consciousness in which that star-fall could be reflected as in a mirror.' And a few pages further on he writes: 'I was but a mere m...

For a long time what we now know as space was inaccessible to humans, not because it was at a height which was unattainable without the least astronautical technology or principles, but because of the cosmic and dualistic representation of reality. Humans were relegated to the centre, to a sort of ecesspiti of imperfection, alteration, incompleteness and finally death. Around them were crystal spheres which held the planets and starsoimmutable, eternal and perfectoa domain which was comple...

Le jour d'apres. Personne ne peut pretendre, ni esperer echapper a un evenement, personnel ou collectif, qui ebranle son existence. Et Dieu, ou etait-il dans ce moment de rupture, qu'il ait ete tragique ou heureux? Il convient de relire avec un regard different ces recits bibliques, devenus incontournables, qui mettent en scene Noe, Abraham et Isaac, Job ou Jonas. Il faut rendre a Dieu et a l'homme ce qui revient a chacun d'entre eux. Le Dieu du jour d'apres n'est-il pas celui qui se tait ...

We live in an evolving and increasingly complex global community and with this complexity comes a broad range of ethical issues. The Ethics: Contemporary Perspectives brings together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including disciplines as diverse as philosophy, law, medicine and the study of world religions, to discuss these broad ethical issues in contemporary society. Its aim is explore our complex world, addressing both old and new ethical issues thr...

Attentif au dialogue entre science et foi, soucieux des personnes les plus faibles, investi dans la réflexion éthique au Centre national d'études spatiales, Jacques Arnould a d'abord mené de front ces différents engagements comme prêtre dominicain, pendant plus de vingt ans. En 2010, il a quitté l'ordre des Prêcheurs pour l'amour d'une femme.Dans une conversation au ton franc et amical, menée par le journaliste Théo Moy, l'ancien religieux retrace son parcours peu banal, parfois ha...

How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the...

This collection of essays looks at Darwin, Darwinism and evolution from several faith perspectives: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Contributors come from across the globe to examine their particular religious belief and views on evolution.