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
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