《Chance and Necessity》

Japanese: 《偶然と必然》 - ぐうぜんとひつぜん

...With the establishment and development of molecular biology, the path to the pursuit of life as a material phenomenon has become wider and deeper, but at the same time, various new debates on the view of life have arisen from the intersection of scientific achievements and the ideological positions of the commentators. Among these, J. Monod's work Chance and Necessity (1970) has become a particular subject of discussion as it presents the author's unique mechanistic view. In modern biology (including medicine, etc.), living organisms in general and human life have already become the subject of widespread manipulation, and the establishment of ethics for the manipulation of life has been raised as an important issue. ...

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…His book, Le hasard et la nécessite (1970, translated into Japanese as Chance and Necessity), which expressed his ideas, caused a great stir. [Ishidate Mieko]…

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…分子生物学の成立と発展により，生命を物質現象として追究する道はますます広く開けかつ深く進んでいるが，それにともない科学的成果と論者の思想的立場との交錯から，各種の生命観的議論がまた新たに生じている。そのなかでJ.モノの著作《偶然と必然》(1970)は著者独自の機械論的見解を述べたものとしてとくに議論の対象になった。　現代生物学(医学などを含め)では生物一般および人間の生命がすでに広範に操作の対象になっており，生命操作の倫理の確立が重要な課題として提起されている。…