An edition of L’action (1893)

Action

essay on a critique of life and a science of practice

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An edition of L’action (1893)

Action

essay on a critique of life and a science of practice

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In L'Action, Blondel developed a "philosophy of action" in which he applies the method of phenomenology. This leads him to the first order issue of "action", critiquing the Enlightenment enshrinement of thought, which he subsumes under the category of action. This leads him to discover the distinction between the willing will and the willed will. This distinction shows a real insufficiency between the two elements of the will. The problem of connaturility - that man cannot desire something which cannot be fulfilled - leads to investigating how the willing will can be fulfilled in the willed will. This insufficiency leads him to eventually hypothesize the supernatural as the only real possibility. He insists that this is as far as a philosopher can go, that the supernatural is the real end of man, and that the content of the supernatural is left to the realm of theology.

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Cover of: Action
Action: essay on a critique of life and a science of practice
1984, University of Notre Dame
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L'action
1963, Presses Universitaires de France
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Edition Notes

Translation of: L'action.
Originally published 1893.

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Dewey Decimal Class
128/.4
Library of Congress
B2430.B583 A2713 1984

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xxx, 446 p. ;
Number of pages
446

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OL3184855M
Internet Archive
actionessayoncri00blon
ISBN 10
0268006059
LCCN
83040113
Library Thing
3020294
Goodreads
1859676

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