Paul Janet
Paul Alexandre René Janet (born April 30, 1823 in Paris , † October 4, 1899 there ) was a French philosopher.
Janet completed his school days at the Lycée Saint-Louis and at the École normal supérieure . In 1848 he got a job as a lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of Bourges and three years later he moved to the University of Strasbourg in the same position . In 1857 Janet accepted a position at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris and worked there as a lecturer in logic.
In 1864 he was entrusted with a teaching position as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and in the same year the Académie des sciences morales et politiques accepted him as a member. When Janet published his Philosophy du bonheur in 1870 , this book received public praise and medal.
In 1880 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. The Janet Rock in Antarctica bears his name.
Works (selection)
- Les causes finales . 1876.
- Le cerveau et la pensée . 1867.
- La crise philosophique. MM. Taine , Renan , Littré, and Vacherot . 1865.
- Elements of morale . 1870.
- Essai sur la dialectique dans Platon et dans Hegel . 2nd ed. 1860.
- La famille. Leçons de philosophie morale . 10th ed. 1873.
- Histoire de la science politique dans ses rapports avec la morale . 3rd ed. 1886 (2 vol.).
- Les maitres de la pensée modern . 1883.
- Le matérialisme contemporain en Allemagne . 3rd edition 1878 (German, Leipzig 1885)
- La morale . 1874.
- Les origines du socialisme contemporain . 1883.
- Philosophy de la Révolution francaise . 1875.
- Philosophy you bonheur . 4th ed. 1873.
- La philosophie française contemporaine . 1879.
- The problems of the XIX. siècle . 1872.
- Saint-Simon et le Saint-Simonisme . Germer Baillière, Paris 1878.
- Traité élémentaire dephilosophie . 4th ed. 1884.
- Victor Cousin et son oeuvre . Calmann Lévy, Paris 1885.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Janet in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Janet, Paul |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janet, Paul Alexandre René (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1823 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1899 |
Place of death | Paris |