La quête d’un réalisme intégral chez Maurice Blondel

Abstract

In order to overcome all dualism, all monism, all disappointing realism, the idealistic illusion and the drifts of nihilism and relativism, concerning being and knowledge, Maurice Blondel, at the end of the Early Modern period, had opened an unprecedented issue: integral realism. This is a metaphysical realism based on two fundamental assumptions: the global unity of our endlessly becoming world and the necessity of the convergence of our sciences and their openness to what is beyond. The concrete, practicing and open method that our philosopher proposes for the spreading of the integral realism is the method of implication and explicitness.