The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays: Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines

ISBN-13: 9789048155958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 156 str.

Maurice Blondel; Fiachra Long

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This book presents three of Blondel's most important articles, which have not yet appeared in English. These are Idealist Illusion (1898), The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life (1903), and The Starting Point of Philosophy (1906). These essays became significant in Blondel's transition from the early Action (1893) to his later works on Thinking (1934), Being and Beings (1935), and Action (1936-7). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought, which developed as he began to articulate the logic of action in response to the criticism that he was an idealist. The Introduction argues that Blondel's measured response to this charge led to the development of a metaphysics of the concrete life and allied him closely to the commonsense school of Reid. These articles should interest students of philosophy and theology who want to explore the theme of concrete experience.

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Dedication. Preface (Claude Troisfontaines). Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Examples of Blondel's Script. Introduction. Determining the Parameters. Ideas as Dynamic Motions. Blondel's Science of Practice. Ideas as Instruments. Blondel's Actin (1893) The Fallout from Action (1893). The Three Articles. The Idealist Illusion. The Elementary Principle. Aristotle. Kant. Bergson. The Starting Point. Jouffroy. This Translation. Maurice Blondel: The Idealist Illusion. Critical Notes. The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life. Critical Notes. The Starting Point of Philosophical Research. January 1906. June 1906. Critical Notes. Index. Appendix.