elan vital (English spelling) elan vital

Japanese: élan vital(英語表記)elanvital
elan vital (English spelling) elan vital

…Freedom is therefore the return to this inner duration and the act of the pure ego as its emanations. On the other hand, the material world, which merely repeats the past moment inertia, can be said to be the extreme of relaxation of this duration, while the rest of the universe is the development of a colorful and diverse creative evolution with various degrees of tension, the extreme of which is the élan vital, or even the divine reality as duration intuited by privileged individuals such as geniuses and saints, not ordinary people. And ethical and religious actions are not choices made by the law of reason as Kant puts it, but the orientation of earthly duration and participation in it by the divine élan d'amour that emanates through the actions of such privileged individuals. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "élan vital" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…自由とはそれゆえこの内的持続への帰一であり,その発出としての純粋自我の行為である。他方,物質界は一瞬前の過去を惰性的に反復するだけであるから,このような持続の弛緩の極といえ,その他の宇宙の万象は,緊張のもろもろの度合による多彩・多様な創造的進化の展開であり,緊張の極はエラン・ビタルélan vital,さらには一般人ならぬ天才・聖人らの特権的個人によって直観される持続としての神的実在である。そして倫理的・宗教的行為とは,カントのいう理性の律法による選択ではなく,かかる特権的個人の行為を通じて発出する神的エラン・ダムールélan d’amourによる地上的持続の方向づけとそれへの参与にある。…

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