Maurice Pradines

Maurice Pradines (born March 28, 1874 in Glovelier , Switzerland, † March 26, 1958 in Paris ) was a French philosopher who primarily devoted himself to philosophical anthropology and especially to the philosophy of the senses.

Within the philosophy of the senses, Pradine's teaching of consciousness has become particularly well known: Perceiving consciousness is based on the two elementary vital functions of “need” and “defense”. The senses of smell and taste are assigned to the need. The need represents the anticipation of an absent object of fulfillment. The defensive senses - according to Pradines, the sense of touch and all higher senses - provide defensive reactions to the irritated life process. The original stimulation of an organism is differentiated on the one hand in the direction of perception and on the other hand in the direction of pain ability. The ability to pain itself arose as a sensory differentiation towards the original organismic irritability. Remote viewing, on the other hand, relieves the organism of the immediate painful touch. According to Pradines, there is a deep inner relationship between perception, consciousness and intelligence on the one hand and pain on the other. From its origin, consciousness is essentially turned towards the outside world.

Works

Maurice Pradines: Philosophy de la sensation, 1932 ff., 3 volumes
Maurice Pradines: Traité de psychologie génerale, 1946

literature

Arnold Gehlen: The human being, his nature and his position in the world, 16th edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-89104-781-1 , page 68; Chapter “The Discharge Law - The Role of Consciousness”, In this chapter Gehlen gives an introduction to the teaching of consciousness according to Maurice Pradines

Web links

Literature by and about Maurice Pradines in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Information on Maurice Pradines in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Individual evidence

↑ The life dates are taken from the French Wikipedia article "Maurice Pradines" and are therefore uncertain
↑ This doctrine of consciousness according to Pradines is reproduced here after Arnold Gehlen: “The human being. His nature and his position in the world". Pradines developed this doctrine in the cited works from 1932 ff. And 1946.

personal data
SURNAME	Pradines, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glovelier , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1958
Place of death	Paris

[1] The life dates are taken from the French Wikipedia article "Maurice Pradines" and are therefore uncertain

[2] This doctrine of consciousness according to Pradines is reproduced here after Arnold Gehlen: “The human being. His nature and his position in the world". Pradines developed this doctrine in the cited works from 1932 ff. And 1946.