It is the conclusion to which the search for authenticity necessarily leads. While some might choose to build a world-view on this, you don't have to subscribe to any of it; by Monod's own cognisance, you can make your own "free choice". Immediately after this, however, in the final sentences of the book, the more fundamental conclusion of Chance and Necessity is reiterated.
The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below; it is for him to choose.
If you can not face this, if you insist that your choice of value system is any less arbitrary than Monod's own, if you cling to a "covenant" between man and the universe, then you will find Chance and Necessity unsettling. In my opinion, Monod comes close to demonstrating that any such belief must be essentially irrational or anti-scientific. Chance and Necessity will be enjoyed by anyone of a philosophical bent interested in the fundamental questions of human existence, with the proviso that they should have at least a basic knowledge of biology.
And of course those with an interest in biology may want to read Chance and Necessity just for that — Monod did win a Nobel prize for his work in biochemistry, and his perspective on the subject is sufficiently distinctive to be worth putting up with some philosophy for. November External links: - buy from Amazon. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Oct 26, John Parks rated it it was amazing.
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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Privacy Overview. Necessary Always Enabled. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and necesslty feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. Synthesis of mRNA is blocked when the repressor is bound to the operator. He offers the selective theory as being consistent with the postulate of objectivity and allowing for epistemological coherence.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. Because it is the foundation of science neceasity science works. This jarring and isolating revelation places value judgments within the hands of man himself. First, there must have been the formation of nucleotides and amino acids from simple carbon compounds and non-biological catalysts.
View all 34 comments. Trivia About Chance and Necessity. In both cases, the patterns and symmetries we see come from the mathematical nature of the underlying molecular structures; crystal lattices in one case, DNA in the other. Enzymatic catalysis is believed to result from the inductive and polarizing action of certain chemical groupings of the specific receptor. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding or removing subheadings. His book Chance and Necessity is an investigation of life as a contingent process governed largely by chance, at all levels, from the molecular to the evolutionary to the very fact of life itself, and what this fact means for us practically, morally and spiritually, as modern humans.
It was an assigned reading from a class at St. Next Monod makes reference to his own research and talks about the S-shaped non-linear curve that is characteristic chancr allosteric enzymes when activity is plotted against concentration of an effector including the substrate.
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