Le Roy Edouard

Abstract

The article is devoted to the concept of Edouard Le Roy (1870–1954), a French mathematician and evolutionary philosopher, a representative of spiritualism and Catholic modernism, a follower of H. Bergson and an associate of P. Teilhard de Chardin. Le Roy defined his views as idealism, emphasizing the etymological connection of this term with both the idea and the ideal. He considered the "need for idealism", which asserts the identity of thinking with being and the primacy of spiritual activity, to be a characteristic feature of genuine metaphysics. One of the central concepts of Le Roy's philosophy is "acting thought", or "thought-action", understood as an infinite supraindividual reality, dynamic continuity, a flow of creative energy that directly flows from God and is intuitively comprehended. The article examines Le Roy's ideas about science, philosophy, religion, as well as the theory of evolution, in the context of which Leroy, together with Teilhard, developed the doctrine of the noosphere.