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

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University of Notre Dame, 1984 - Philosophy - 446 pages
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 disappeared from the philosophical vocabulary. It is no longer possible or legitimate to ignore action in philosophy as it was in France when Blondel appeared on the scene in 1882, when at the age of 21 he first began to focus on action as a dissertation subject, and in 1893, when he defended and published the dissertation now presented here for the English reader.

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Part I
16
CHAPTER 2
26
Part II
36
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Maurice Blondel (1861-1949) was born in Dijon, France and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. Blondel's defended his thesis, L'action in 1893 at the Sorbonne. Blondel at first was refused a university position on the grounds of having taken an improperly religious position in his philosophy, but finally received a professorship in Aix in 1897.

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