Ramon Martí i d'Eixalà

Ramon Martí i d'Eixalà (* 1807 in Cardona ; † May 18, 1857 in Madrid ) was a Catalan lawyer, philosopher and politician.

Work and life path

Martí obtained his law degree from the University of Cervera in 1830 . In 1837 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Barcelona . From 1834 to 1845 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the Academia de Ciencias Naturales y Artes in Barcelona and a little later at the reopened University of Barcelona. He was also the secretary of this university on an interim basis. He was a member of the Barcelona Bar Association, a member of the Societat Econòmica d'Amics del País (Friends of the Country Economic Society), a member of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment and director of the Barcelonès Institute , a primary and secondary school in Barcelona. He was the leader of the Liberal Party. He was a center-left member of the Cortes in 1843, 1844-1846, 1853, and 1857 . In Madrid he advocated the protection and protection of Catalan industry. In 1846 he became professor of commercial and civil law at the University of Barcelona. He participated in the liquidation of the property of the old University of Cervera. He was President of the Academy for Jurisprudence and a member of the Commission for the Reform of Commercial Law. He was involved in the fixing of the city constitution of Barcelona (1857) as editor.

Martí became known particularly through his professorship. He wrote the following legal textbooks: Tratado elemental del derecho civil romano y español (1838, elementary treatise on Roman and Spanish civil law), Instituciones del derecho mercantil de España (1848, institution of Spanish commercial law) This work has been published at least seven times and by Manuel Duran i Bas added additional chapters. Martí contributed to the translation and commentary of Las siete Partidas d'Alfons X (1843). His philosophical publications, Curso de filosofía elemental (1841, 1845, elementary philosophy) and Manual de la historia de la filosofía (1842, manual of the history of philosophy, translated from French) were didactically oriented. The latter work offered a history of Spanish philosophy as an appendix for the first time. Further publications were the Discursos inaugurales of the university courses of 1835, 1837 and 1852 and other unpublished writings such as the Sentimientos morales (Moral feelings). The originality of these works lies primarily in their methodology. They are all presented using the empirical canon presented for the first time in the Curso de Filosofía . This canon can also be found in his legal works.

Martí did not know German philosophy apart from that of Kant . In contrast, he was familiar with the English empiricists Francis Bacon , John Locke and David Hume as well as the French sensualists Condillac and Destutt and the Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart . Apparently he did n't know William Hamilton . In his thinking, especially in the thinking of the consciousness in all its integrity, he benefited from Francesc Xavier Llorens i Barba , the founder of the Barcelona School of Philosophy. This theory represents a certain idealistic spiritualism and emphasizes the value of human intimacy. It puts the value of affectivity and feelings above that of intelligence. The preliminary decision for a rigorous scientific approach and a pragmatic conception of science are the foundations of a philosophy of common sense or a philosophy of common sense . Martí did not import any Scottish ideas into Catalonia. Rather, in his ideas he encounters a methodically strict, practical way of thinking that has its roots in Catalonia.

Web links

• Enciclopedia.cat: Ramon Martí i d'Eixalà. Retrieved January 9, 2018 (Catalan). 
• Carlos Petit, Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Editor): Ramon Martí i d'Eixalà. In: Diccionario de Catedráticos de Españoles de Derecho. July 2015, accessed January 9, 2018 (Spanish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to the Diccionario de Catedráticos de Españoles de Derecho , Ramon Martí i d'Eixala was baptized on January 6, 1808 in Cardona. According to the absolutely common practice of being baptized no later than 14 days after the birth, Martí should have been born at the end of December 1807. The exact date of death is also given according to this source.