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Philosophy of action. Maurice Blondel (French: [blɔ̃dɛl]; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably L'Action, aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief.
This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s. Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it.
Maurice Blondel’s best-known work, L’Action (1893),3 bears as a subtitle a programmatic expression that is indicative of an original methodological attitude: An Essay about a Criticism of Life and a Science of Practice.
- Clara Mandolini
- 2008
Dec 15, 2021 · This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic. Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured...
- Maurice Blondel
- Oliva Blanchette
- University of Notre Dame Pess, 2021
This new edition of the English translation of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893) remains a philosophical classic. Action was once a common theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it.
Aug 3, 2024 · Blondel shows how subjective consciousness itself is the result of action, starting from an infinite “willing will” an infinite horizon of possibilities of the will to a “willed will,” a final cause which narrows down the will to a determinate end.
French Catholic philosopher, Maurice Blondel, (1861-1949) is one of those great thinkers who paid attention, wondered, and stopped to delight in the great, small mysteries of the ‘obvious’ fact that we are alive. He raised a very simple question: why do we act? Nothing seems more straightforward and evident than the fact that we act. But why?
