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Maurice Blondel (; 2 November 1861 – 4 June 1949) was a French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably ''L'Action'', aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christianity. ==Biography== Blondel was born in Dijon in 1861. He came from a family who were traditionally connected to the legal profession, but chose early in life to follow a career in philosophy. In 1881, he gained admission to the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. In 1893 he finished his thesis "L'Action" (Action), a critical essay of life and of a science of the practice. He was at this time refused a teaching post (as would have been his due) because his philosophical conclusions were deemed to be too 'Christian' and, therefore, "compromising" of philosophical reason. In 1895, however, with the help of his former teacher Emile Boutroux, he became a ''Maître de Conférences'' at Lille, then shortly after at Aix-en-Provence, where he became a professor in 1897. He would remain in Aix-en-Provence for the rest of his career.〔Michael A Conway, 'Maurice Blondel and ''Ressourcement'' ', in Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray, ''Ressourcement'' (Oxford: OUP, 2012), p70.〕 In ''L'Action'', Blondel developed a "philosophy of action" that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion. He held that action alone could never satisfy the human yearning for the transfinite, which could only be fulfilled by God, whom he described as the "first principle and last term." His subsequent works, the ''Letter on Apologetics'' and ''History and Dogma'', were also connected to the philosophical problem of religion. They unleashed an enormous controversy at the time of publication. Pope Pius X's 1907 encyclical ''Pascendi dominici gregis'', which targeted the 'Modernist' threat to Catholic thought, targeted Blondel to some degree, and for many years his thought remained associated (perhaps tenuously) with the Modernists. He did, however, have great influence on later Catholic thought, especially through ''ressourcement'' theologians such as Henri de Lubac.〔Michael A Conway, 'Maurice Blondel and ''Ressourcement'' ', in Gabriel Flynn and Paul D. Murray, ''Ressourcement'' (Oxford: OUP, 2012), p70.〕 His wife died in 1919 and in 1927 he retired for health reasons. Between 1934 and 1937 he published a trilogy dedicated to thought, being and action. In 1935, he published an essay of concrete and integrale ontology "L'être et les êtres" (''The Being and the Beings'') and in 1946 he published "L'esprit chrétien" (''The Christian Spirit''). Blondel died in Aix-en-Provence in 1949. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Blondel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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