“Metaphysics of charity” in Maurice Blondel (1861-1949)

Abstract

Maurice Blondel, known as the author of L’Action (1893), has been influential on the horizon of modern philosophy. Thus, since an integral phenomenology and hermeneutics of life, a “metaphysics of charity” can be set, and I intend to submit it for consideration. From the action, this metaphysics is characterized with these words: “being is love, so if one does not love, one does not know anything”. For Blondel being is an event, a continuous transformation, becoming not an either or neutral, but an unfolding, a movement towards ever greater good. The man in the unlimited desire discovers the transcendence of the human will and its reference to something other than its own will. The human desire is desire for infinite.