Paul Janet
Paul Alexandre René Janet (30 April 1823 – 4 October 1899) was a French philosopher and writer.
Biography
Born in Paris, he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845–1848) and Strasbourg (1848–1857), and of logic at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris (1857–1864). In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of moral and political sciences.
He wrote widely on philosophy, politics and ethics, on idealistic lines: La Famille, Histoire de la philosophie dans l'antiquité et dans le temps moderne, Histoire de la science politique, Philosophie de la Revolution Française, etc. However, in the opinion of 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, these writings are not characterised by much originality of thought. In philosophy he was a follower of Victor Cousin, and through him of G. W. F. Hegel. His principal work, Théorie de la morale, owes much to Immanuel Kant.
Works
- Essai sur la dialectique dans Platon et dans Hegel (1855)
- La Famille: leçons de philosophie morale (1855)
- Histoire de la philosophie morale et politique dans l’antiquité et les temps modernes (2 volumes; 1858)
- Le Matérialisme contemporain en Allemagne: Examen du système du docteur Büchner (1864)
- La Crise philosophique. MM. Taine, Renan, Littré et Vacherot (1865)
- "La Liberté de penser" (Revue des Deux Mondes, 2e période, tome 65, 1866)
- Le Cerveau et la Pensée (1867)
- Philosophie du bonheur (1867)
- Éléments de morale (1870)
- Histoire de la science politique dans ses rapports avec la morale (2 volumes; 1872)
- Les Problèmes du xixe siècle : la politique, la littérature, la science, la philosophie, la religion (1872)
- La Morale (1874)
- Philosophie de la Révolution française (1875)
- Les Causes finales (1876)
- Saint-Simon et le Saint-Simonisme (1878)
- Court Traité sur Dieu, l'homme et la béatitude (translation of Tractatus de Deo et homine ejusque felicitate, by Baruch Spinoza).
- La Philosophie française contemporaine (1879)
- Traité élémentaire de philosophie à l'usage des classes (1879)
- Les Maîtres de la pensée moderne (1883)
- Les Origines du socialisme contemporain (1883)
- Victor Cousin et son œuvre (1885)
- Éléments de philosophie scientifique et de philosophie morale (1890)
- La philosophie de Lamennais (1890)
- Principes de métaphysique et de psychologie: Leçons professées à la Faculté des lettres de Paris, 1888-1894 (2 volumes; 1897)
Translated intro English
- The Materialism of the Present Day, a Critique of Dr. Büchner's System (1866)
- Final Causes (1878)
- The Theory of Morals (1883)
- "The Teaching of Psychology," Popular Science Monthly, XXXIII (July 1888)
- A History of the Problems of Philosophy (with Gabriel Séailles; 1902)
- Fénelon, His Life and Works (1914)
Notes
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External links
- Works by Paul Janet at Project Gutenberg
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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- 1823 births
- 1899 deaths
- University of Bourges faculty
- University of Strasbourg faculty
- University of Paris faculty
- French philosophers
- French essayists
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- French male essayists