Du Dieu qui vient à l'action. Le dénouement blondélien

Abstract

The attempt made by Blondel in his thesis of 1893 entitle L'Action to think the coming of God into the field of philosophy remains original. By refusing to posit it as a theoretical postulate or again as a point of arrival in thought, Blondel seeks to follow the logic of action in its integral unfolding and according to a method of immanence. Setting out from a reflection on the radical indigence in being of the subject and on the profound inadequacy which marks it, he seeks to show how the dynamism of the willing action comes to meet the inevitable heteronomy of transcendence. Far from metaphysical demonstrations, from mystical elans and from generous dogmatisations, this thought refuses too untie the reflection of the subject about himself from that of the practical and efficacious existence of God. The project also seeks to be critical, notably by criticising superstitions and idolatrous action. Thus it retains its anthropological and ethical bearing, since revelation has meaning and proof only in the augmentation of the humanisation of action.