The Necessity To Surpass
Human Natural Order To Attain To Religious Promise In L’action 1893
Of Maurice Blondel
Total View This Week0
Total View This Week0
Institusion
INSTITUT FILSAFAT DAN TEKNOLOGI KREATIF LEDALERO
Author
HAYONG, Bernardus Subang
Subject
101 Teori filsafat
Datestamp
2024-11-02 02:39:00
Abstract :
What is the secret power behind human actions? A mother maybe waves at her son when he is leaving her for a long time. Two friends maybe embrace, hug and kiss after not seeing one another for along time. The student goes to school everyday, a Christian goes to church every Sunday. Working, thinking, asking, reflecting, etc., are actions that have been around as long as human life. Are they spontaneous actions? Are they habitual actions or do they come from natural appetite, biological tendency, desire or willing? Or is there more to them? The notion of freedom, determination, will, idea, condition, decision and action constitute a personal individuality and functional as the root principal in human action and the understanding of life. According to Anthony Kenny, the description of human feeling and of human willing depend on the description of human action . Human action, thus, expresses and explains what a subject has which regard to condition, feeling, willing, favour, purpose etc. We can guess a man?s motivation, his desire, his intention by analysing his actions. Operari sequitur essere. Stephen L.Brock seeks the relation between physical and voluntary action in St. Thomas? theory of action. He wants to bring out the general principles which govern human actions and to show that both the distinction and the connection between physical and human actions are the essential elements in the understanding of human actions themselves . Whatever a human does, it has a cause and a télos (sufficient reason). The cause and télos affirm that human act do not originated in a vacuum. The agent or doer never starts from nothing. Human télos highlights consciousness to realize a project. Blondel (1861-1949) in L?Action (1893), studies how ?ideas function in the laboratory of life. Like a triangular fashion , ideal relevant to human growth and understanding? . He finds that ?subjective initiative? is the starting point . It is a guideline by which a man gives a direction to his growing process of life. Blondel underlines that under the capacity of ?subjective initiative?, a man gets a quality of life. The ?initiative? said L.Pareyson (1981-1991) is a unique foundation of human consciousness and constitutes the value of the human person . It appears like an option that requires, decision and evaluation. Blondel, as I have drown attention to in this research, underlines the reality of human life as the necessity of action and the individual choice (decision) as the phenomenon of action. Both, the necessary and the phenomenal, the mandatory and the contingent come together .Being aware of his condition of human life as the necessity and phenomenon, man cannot deny an internal conflict; volonté voulante (the willing will) and volonté voulue (the willed will). This internal conflict?infinite of the willing will and finite of the willed will?brings us to reflect on the existential question of Maurice Blondel in his primary philosophical work L?Action 1893: Oui ou non, la vie humaine a-t-elle un sens, et l?homme a-t-il une destine? Yes or no, does human life make sense, and does man have a destiny ? Beginning with this question, the Philosopher from Aix, focuses his investigation on action. This is precisely because it is the only way to bring many things into question, to proceed without relying completely on any presuppositions or predeterminations. In Blondel, human will is a datum of human existence. In scientific experience, the term ?datum? is something which arises from one?s curiosity or interest for research. In this sense, the data of a human person consists of volonté voulante and volonté voulue. Blondel distinguishes these aspects between autonomy and heteronomy in co-action. The will and the action, therefore, are profound elements which are special characteristics of a human being. It is interesting to note that, from an internal conflict of volonté voulante and volonté voulue and the striving always to go forward, Blondel wants to examine the insufficiency of the phenomenon of human action, and insists on the need to go beyond the human natural order. Blondel admits that the investigation of will is important, it is ?inevitably technical? but necessary for ?the continuity of our thought? and ?useful to offer an approximate equivalent of it? . Philosophy of action in Blondel manifests a human person in a peculiar context of existence. ?I act but without even knowing what action is, without having wished to live, without knowing exactly either who I am or even if I am? . For Blondel, this is an ?inevitable problem and man resolves it inevitably and this solution, true or false, but voluntary at the same time as necessary, each one bears it in his action?. That is why we must study action , said Blondel. In action the very meaning of the word and the richness of its contents unfold little by little. But, the peculiarity of human existence is manifested also in a person?s decisive option after examining
What is the secret power behind human actions? A mother maybe waves at her son when he is leaving her for a long time. Two friends maybe embrace, hug and kiss after not seeing one another for along time. The student goes to school everyday, a Christian goes to church every Sunday. Working, thinking, asking, reflecting, etc., are actions that have been around as long as human life. Are they spontaneous actions? Are they habitual actions or do they come from natural appetite, biological tendency, desire or willing? Or is there more to them? The notion of freedom, determination, will, idea, condition, decision and action constitute a personal individuality and functional as the root principal in human action and the understanding of life. According to Anthony Kenny, the description of human feeling and of human willing depend on the description of human action . Human action, thus, expresses and explains what a subject has which regard to condition, feeling, willing, favour, purpose etc. We can guess a man?s motivation, his desire, his intention by analysing his actions. Operari sequitur essere. Stephen L.Brock seeks the relation between physical and voluntary action in St. Thomas? theory of action. He wants to bring out the general principles which govern human actions and to show that both the distinction and the connection between physical and human actions are the essential elements in the understanding of human actions themselves . Whatever a human does, it has a cause and a télos (sufficient reason). The cause and télos affirm that human act do not originated in a vacuum. The agent or doer never starts from nothing. Human télos highlights consciousness to realize a project. Blondel (1861-1949) in L?Action (1893), studies how ?ideas function in the laboratory of life. Like a triangular fashion , ideal relevant to human growth and understanding? . He finds that ?subjective initiative? is the starting point . It is a guideline by which a man gives a direction to his growing process of life. Blondel underlines that under the capacity of ?subjective initiative?, a man gets a quality of life. The ?initiative? said L.Pareyson (1981-1991) is a unique foundation of human consciousness and constitutes the value of the human person . It appears like an option that requires, decision and evaluation. Blondel, as I have drown attention to in this research, underlines the reality of human life as the necessity of action and the individual choice (decision) as the phenomenon of action. Both, the necessary and the phenomenal, the mandatory and the contingent come together .Being aware of his condition of human life as the necessity and phenomenon, man cannot deny an internal conflict; volonté voulante (the willing will) and volonté voulue (the willed will). This internal conflict?infinite of the willing will and finite of the willed will?brings us to reflect on the existential question of Maurice Blondel in his primary philosophical work L?Action 1893: Oui ou non, la vie humaine a-t-elle un sens, et l?homme a-t-il une destine? Yes or no, does human life make sense, and does man have a destiny ? Beginning with this question, the Philosopher from Aix, focuses his investigation on action. This is precisely because it is the only way to bring many things into question, to proceed without relying completely on any presuppositions or predeterminations. In Blondel, human will is a datum of human existence. In scientific experience, the term ?datum? is something which arises from one?s curiosity or interest for research. In this sense, the data of a human person consists of volonté voulante and volonté voulue. Blondel distinguishes these aspects between autonomy and heteronomy in co-action. The will and the action, therefore, are profound elements which are special characteristics of a human being. It is interesting to note that, from an internal conflict of volonté voulante and volonté voulue and the striving always to go forward, Blondel wants to examine the insufficiency of the phenomenon of human action, and insists on the need to go beyond the human natural order. Blondel admits that the investigation of will is important, it is ?inevitably technical? but necessary for ?the continuity of our thought? and ?useful to offer an approximate equivalent of it? . Philosophy of action in Blondel manifests a human person in a peculiar context of existence. ?I act but without even knowing what action is, without having wished to live, without knowing exactly either who I am or even if I am? . For Blondel, this is an ?inevitable problem and man resolves it inevitably and this solution, true or false, but voluntary at the same time as necessary, each one bears it in his action?. That is why we must study action , said Blondel. In action the very meaning of the word and the richness of its contents unfold little by little. But, the peculiarity of human existence is manifested also in a person?s decisive option after examining
Download
book
BibTex
Latex, Jabref
cloud_download
Original Resource
url resource Institution
