1.1 Werk- und ideengeschichtliche Volten des Ur. Eine Einführung vom „élan vital“ zur „neuen Theologie“

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Keyword(s):  
Élan Vital

scholarly journals Indecisão plena de promessas: imagens da vida e da infância na filosofia de Henri Bergson

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (71) ◽  
pp. 565-580
Author(s):  
Magda Costa Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Dynamic Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Key Words Childhood ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
De Se ◽  
Living Nature ◽  
The One ◽  
Élan Vital

Indecisão plena de promessas: imagens da vida e da infância na filosofia de Henri Bergson Resumo: Numa passagem da obra Évolution Créatrice, Bergson recupera a imagem da criança para afirmar que a natureza viva opera através de tendências divergentes. Apesar de não ter desenvolvido um pensamento de pendor educacional, encontram-se na obra bergsoniana referências que, por um lado, recuperam a dimensão criativa e criadora da infância e, por outro, acentuam a forma infantil dos movimentos do élan vital. Estas referências fazem parte da imagética do autor, mostrando como o seu pensamento sugestiona leituras ímpares. O convite para cruzar a imagem da vida como infância com a imagem da infância como vida revela-se, assim, sugestivo para repensar o que nos habita como constitutivamente outro: a criança que fomos e a natureza que somos. E será através da imagem – como forma de contacto dinâmico com o real – que poderemos encontrar algumas respostas para a sugestão bergsoniana de se promover nas escolas um conhecimento infantil (enfantin).Palavras-chave: infância; criança; natureza; imagem; Bergson. Indecision charged with promise: Images of life and childhood in Henri Bergson’s philosophy Abstract: In a passage in his Évolution Créatrice, Bergson reclaims the image of the child to argue that living nature works through divergent tendencies. Although Bergson’s work doesn’t focus specifically on education, it does contain references that, on the one hand, reclaim the creative and creating nature of childhood, while on the other hand accentuating the childlike nature of élan vital’s movements (vital impetus). These references are part of Bergson’s repertoire of imagery and demonstrate how his thought evokes uneven readings. The invitation to cross the image of life as childhood with that of childhood as life ultimately evokes a rethinking of what inhabits us as constitutively other: the child we were and the nature we are. And it is through the notion of image – as a form of dynamic contact with reality – that we will find some answers for Bergson’s suggestion that schools promote a childlike knowledge (enfantin).Key-words: childhood; child; nature; image; Bergson.  Indecisión cargada de promesas: Imagénes de la vida y de la infancia en la filosofía de Henri Bergson Resumen: En un pasaje sobre la obra Évolution Créatrice, Bergson recupera la imagen del niño para afirmar que la naturaleza viva opera a través de tendencias divergentes. A pesar de no haber desarrollado un pensamiento de carácter educacional, se encuentran en la obra bergsoniana referencias que, por un lado, recuperan la dimensión creativa y creadora de la infancia y, por otro, acentúan la forma infantil de los movimientos del impulso vital. Estas referencias hacen parte de la imagen del autor, mostrando como su pensamiento sugestiona lecturas impares. O convite para cruzar la imagen de la vida como infancia con la imagen de la infancia como vida se revela, de esta manera, sugestivo para repensar lo que nos habita como constitutivamente otro: el niño que fuimos y la naturaleza que somos. Y será a través de la imagen – como forma de contacto dinámico con lo real – que podremos encontrar algunas respuestas para la sugestión bergsoniana de promoverse en las escuelas un conocimiento infantil (enfantin).Palavras-clave: infancia; niño; naturaleza; imagen; Bergson. Data de registro: 20/08/2020Data de aceite: 30/11/2020

Religion without God

Philosophy ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
A. E. Garvie
Keyword(s):  
Human Interest ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Élan Vital

(I) The poet’s words: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” are not merely a command of whatought to be, they are a description of what is. (a) Man has always been stretching himself beyond his own measure. He has a sense of the Infinite: Eternity has been set in his heart: he has not been content to look only on the things seen, his gaze has ever been towards the Unseen. Whatever stage of development he may have reached, he seeks for, and strives after, what is above and beyond himself and his world. In science he tries to get behind thephenomenalreality as his senses apprehend it, to thenoumenal, mind. In philosophy he endeavours to bring the multiplicity of his experience, outer and inner, into a unity that will evidence itself to his reason as coherent, and not contradictory. In morality he is not content with the customs and standards of the society of which he is a member; but conscious of their inadequacy, he conceives and aspires to realize an ideal adequate to his nature; hisought to beis always challenging hisis. The impulse or motive (theélan vital) of progress in all spheres of human interest and activity is “the best is yet to be.”

Is The Second Sex Beauvoir’s Application of Sartrean Existentialism?

1998 ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Simons
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Choice Point ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Élan Vital

Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex, has traditionally been read as an application of Sartrean existentialism to the problem of women. Critics have claimed a Sartrean origin for Beauvoir's central theses: that under patriarchy woman is the Other, and that 'one is not born a woman, but becomes one.' An analysis of Beauvoir's recently discovered 1927 diary, written while she was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, two years before her first meeting with Sartre, challenges this interpretation. In this diary, Beauvoir affirms her commitment to doing philosophy, defines the philosophical problem of 'the opposition of self and other,' and explores the links between love and domination. In 1927, she thus lays the foundations of both Sartre's phenomenology of interpersonal relationships and of her own thesis, in The Second Sex, that woman is the Other. Her descriptions of the experience of freedom and choice point to the influence of Bergson, specifically his concepts of 'becoming' and élan vital. Tracing Beauvoir's shift from her apolitical position of 1927 to the feminist engagement of The Second Sex points to the influence of the African-American writer, Richard Wright, whose description of the lived experience of oppression of blacks in America, and whose challenge to Marxist reductionism, provide Beauvoir with a model, an analogy, for analyzing woman's oppression.

From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Geaves
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Élan Vital ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Internal Pressures

ABSTRACT: The following article will put forward the argument that it is necessary to take into account the worldview of the insider in order to appreciate the coherence or ““rationality”” of actions of a religiousspiritual teacher or organization. As a case study, the article examines the transformations that have occurred in the organizational forms utilized by Prem Rawat (a.k.a. Maharaji). While bringing readers up to date with Maharaji's activities since the 1980s, I argue that these developments owe more to Maharaji's self-perception of his role as a master and his wish to universalize the message historically located in the teachings of individual sant iconoclasts, than to external or internal pressures brought to bear upon the organizational forms themselves.

scholarly journals “Uproar in the Echo”: Browning's Vitalist Beginnings

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Leslie White
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Main Line ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Élan Vital ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
Willed Action ◽  
Individual Human

In letters to Mrs. Ernest Benzon and Mrs. Thomas FitzGerald, Browning claims affinity with the great philosopher of the Will, Schopenhauer, and asserts that elements of vitalism are the “substratum” of his life and work. These letters confirm the poet's place in the line of vitalist thought shaped by Schopenhauer, the English Romantics, and Carlyle and further developed by Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, Henri Bergson, and D. H. Lawrence. Vitalism resists precise definition; each theorist advances a singular terminology and application. Schopenhauer's vitalism may be understood from his concept of cosmic Will; Carlyle's from the essential presence of energy, movement, and change in the world. Bergson used the term élan vital and Lawrence such characteristically vague phrases as “sense of truth” and “supreme impulse” to express faith in forces operating beneath or hovering above the surface of life. Broadly put, when a rational orientation to the world ceased to be adequate, when rationalism devolved into a falsification of reality's authentic energy, major vitalists came into existence and posited as the true reality a primitive, universal force of which everything in that reality is an objectification. Unlike other vitalists in the English tradition, such as Blake and Lawrence, Browning was not comfortable with cosmic images. His vitalism breaks from the main line to focus on the individual human will, which he saw as an intuitive impulse and as a means to realize the self and locate its place in the world. For Browning, the comprehension of life's vital movement lay in the dynamic energy of willed action.

Dennett on Qualia and Consciousness: A Critique

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bredo Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
Living Thing ◽  
Élan Vital

IntroductionIt is at least a bit embarrassing, perhaps even scandalous, that debate should still rage over the sheer existence of qualia, but they continue to find able defenders after decades of being attacked as relics of ghostly substances, epiphenomenal non-entities, nomological danglers and the like; the intensity of the current confrontation is captured vividly by Daniel Dennett:What are qualia, exactly? This obstreperous query is dismissed by one author (“only half in jest”) by invoking Louis Armstrong's legendary reply when asked what jazz was: “If you gotta ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.” … If I succeed in my task, this move … will look as quaint and insupportable as a jocular appeal to the ludicrousness of a living thing-a living thing, mind you! -doubting the existence of elan vital.

scholarly journals PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN IMAM DI TENGAH PERANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Antonius Denny Firmanto
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Human History ◽  
World War ◽  
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ◽  
Élan Vital

World War I was a horrifying episode in human history. Some, however, saw past the brutality of the fighting, the squalid conditions of the trenches, and the excessive casualties on both sides, and instead saw God. World War I led to questions about humanity and its meaning. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was one of thousands of clergy, religious, and seminarians who experienced World War I as a conscript in Northern France. <b>Keywords:</b> priest, élan vital, war Perang Dunia I adalah salah satu periode yang paling mengerikan dalam sejarah manusia. Kendatipun demikian, di tengah kondisi nan brutal seperti itu sesungguhnya orang masih sanggup menemukan Allah. Perang Dunia I, bagaimanapun, menimbulkan pertanyaan mendasar tentang kemanusiaan dan maknanya. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin adalah salah satu dari ribuan klerus, religius, dan seminaris yang mengalami Perang Dunia I sebagai prajurit di Perancis Utara. <b>Kata-kata kunci: imam, elan vital, perang</b>

scholarly journals PARIS DANS LA LITTERATURE ROMANTIQUE Le cas du roman Père Goriot de Balzac

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pavle Sekeruš ◽  
Ivana Živančević Sekeruš
Keyword(s):  
Xviiie Siècle ◽  
Élan Vital ◽  
Xviiie Siecle

La Bible déjà donne l’image double de la ville qui traverse toute la littérature et qui la varie en fonction du temps. D’un coté le lieu de toutes les débauches, de toutes les corruptions à l’image de Sodome et Gomorrhe, de Babel et de Babylone et de l’autre, Jérusalem céleste, lieu de rencontre de l’homme et de son Dieu. Le XVIIIe siècle reprend cette dualité et la développe en conflit entre la ville et la campagne, entre la civilisation et la rusticité pour les uns, ou entre le lieu de corruption et le lieu de pureté et de sincérité pour les autres. Les romantiques français, tout en rejetant la ville et opposant sa laideur à la beauté de la nature, restent fascinés par sa force et son élan vital et développent le thème de la modernité urbaine à travers l’évocation récurrente de Paris. La place tenue par la ville dans le discours social d’une époque et la manière dont la littérature en rend compte offre la possibilité de marquer la relation à la ville comme le propre d’une esthétique et d’un courant littéraire. L’exemple type en est Le Père Goriot, le fameux roman de 1835.

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