Action (1893) : Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice

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"Action was once a prominent theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time Maurice Blondel came to focus on it for his own philosophical reflection, it had all but disa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blondel, Maurice, 1861-1949
Otros Autores: Blanchette, Oliva (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Life.
Ethics.
Act (Philosophy)
ethics (philosophy)
Morale.
Action (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Maurice Blondel's Philosophy of Action
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the Translation
  • Preface to the New Edition
  • Introduction
  • Part I Is There a Problem of Action?
  • CHAPTER 1 How We Claim the Moral Problem Does Not Exist
  • CHAPTER 2 That We Fail to Suppress the Moral Problem and How
  • Part II Is the Solution to the Problem of Action Negative?
  • CHAPTER 1 How We Claim to Make Nothingness the Conclusion of Experience,the End of Science and the End of Human Ambition
  • CHAPTER 2 That There is No Negative Solution to the Problem of Action
  • and What the Consciousness of or the Will for Nothingness Harbors
  • THE NATURAL ORIENT A TION OF THE WILL Does the problem of action allow for a positive solution?
  • Part III The Phenomenon of Action
  • How we try to define action through science aloneand to restrict it to the natural order
  • Stage One FROM SENSE INTUITION TO SUBJECTIVE SCIENCEThe scientific conditions and the unconscious sources of action
  • CHAPTER 1 The Inconsistency of Sensation and Scientific Activity
  • CHAPTER 2 The Incoherence of the Positive Sciencesand the Mediation of Action
  • CHAPTER 3 The Elements of Consciousness and the SubjectiveScience of Action
  • Stage Two FROM THE THRESHOLD OF CONSCIOUSNESSTO THE VOLUNTARY OPERATION The conscious elements of action
  • CHAPTER 1 The Conception of Action
  • CHAPTER 2 The Reason of Action
  • CHAPTER 3 The Determination of Freedomand the Production of Action
  • Stage Three FROM THE INTENTIONAL EFFORT TO THE FIRSTEXTERIOR EXPANSION OF ACTIONThe organic growth of willed action
  • CHAPTER 1 The Body of Action and Subjective Physiology
  • CHAPTER 2 The Action of the Body and the Psychologyof the Organism
  • CHAPTER 3 The Interior Synergy and the Constitution ofIndividual Life through Action
  • Stage Four FROM INDIVIDUAL ACTION TO SOCIAL ACTION Generation, fecundation and reproduction of human actions
  • CHAPTER 1 The Immediate Expansion and th
  • CHAPTER 2 Coaction
  • CHAPTER 3 Influence and Cooperation218vu
  • Stage Five FROM SOCIAL ACTION TO SUPERSTITIOUS ACTION The profound unity of wills and the universalextension of action
  • CHAPTER 1 The Voluntary Unity and the Fruitful Actionof Common LifeFamily, Country, Humanity
  • CHAPTER 2 The Universal Extension of ActionThe tiered forms of natural morality
  • CHAPTER 3 Superstitious ActionHow man attempts to bring his action to completionand to be self-sufficient
  • Part IV The Necessary Being of Action
  • How the terms of the problem of human destinyare inevitably and voluntarily posited
  • I. THE CONFLICT
  • FIRST MOMENT The Will Contradicted and VanquishedThe apparent abortion of willed action
  • SECOND MOMENT The Will Affirmed and Maintained The indestructibility of voluntary action
  • THIRD MOMENT The One Thing Necessary The inevitable transcendence of human action

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