PHILIPPE See also:JOSEPH See also:BENJAMIN See also:BUCHEZ (1796-1865)
, See also:French author and politician, was See also:born on the 31st of See also:March 1796 at Matagne-la-Petite, now in See also:Belgium, then in the French See also:department of the See also:Ardennes
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He finished his See also:general See also:education in See also:Paris, and afterwards applied himself to the study of natural See also:science and See also:medicine
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In 1821 he co-operated with See also:Saint-Amand See also:Bazard and others in See also:founding a See also:secret association, modelled on that of the See also:Italian See also:Carbonari, with the See also:object of organizing a general armed rising against the See also:government
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The organization spread rapidly and widely, and displayed itself in repeated attempts at revolution
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In one of these attempts, the affair at See also:Belfort, See also:Buchez was gravely compromised, although the See also:jury which tried him did not find the See also:evidence sufficient to See also:warrant his condemnation
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In 1825 he graduated in medicine, and soon after he published with Ulisse Treat a Precis elementaire d'See also:hygiene
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About the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became a member of the Saint-Simonian Society, presided over by Bazard, See also:Barthelemy Prosper See also:Enfantin, and Olinde Rodrigues, and contributed to its See also:organ, the Producteur
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He See also:left it in consequence of aversion to the See also:strange religious ideas See also:developed by its " Supreme See also:Father," Enfantin, and began to elaborate what he regarded as a See also:Christian See also:socialism
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For the exposition and advocacy of his principles he founded a periodical called L'Europeen
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In 1833 he published an Introduction a la science de l'histoire, which was received with considerable favour (2nd ed., improved and enlarged, 2 vols., 1842)
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Notwithstanding its prolixity, this is an interesting See also:work
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The See also:part which treats of the aim, See also:foundation and methods of the science of See also:history is valuable; but what is most distinctive in Buchez's theory—the See also:division of See also:historical development into four See also:great epochs originated by four universal revelations, of each See also:epoch into three periods corresponding to See also:desire, reasoning and performance, and of each of these periods into a theoretical and See also:practical See also:age—is merely ingenious (see See also:Flint's See also:Philosophy of History in See also:Europe, i
.
242-252)
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Buchez next edited, along with M
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Roux-Lavergne (1802–1874), the Histoire parlementaire de la Revolution frangaise (1833–1838; 40 vols.)
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This vast and conscientious publication is a valuable See also:store of material for the See also:early periods of the first French Revolution
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There is a See also:review of it by See also:Carlyle (Miscellanies), the first two parts of whose own history of the French Revolution are mainly See also:drawn from it
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The editors worked under the See also:inspiration of a strong admiration of the principles of See also:Robespierre and the See also:Jacobins, and in the belief that the French Revolution was an See also:attempt to realize See also:Christianity
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In the Essai d'un traite cornplet de philosophie au point de vue du Catholicisme et du progres (1839–184o) Buchez endeavoured to co-See also:ordinate in a single See also:system the See also:political, moral, religious and natural phenomena of existence
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Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by See also:revelation, and is therefore not only certain, but the only real certainty
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It was partly owing to the reputation which he had acquired by these publications, but still more owing to his connexion with the See also:National newspaper, and with the secret See also:societies hostile to the government of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe, that he was raised, by the Revolution of 1848, to the See also:presidency of the Constituent
See also:Assembly
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He speedily showed that he was not possessed of the qualities needed in a situation so difficult and in days so tempestuous
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He retained the position only for a very See also:short time
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After the See also:dissolution of the assembly he was not re-elected
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Thrown back into private See also:life, he resumed his studies, and added several See also:works to those which have been already mentioned
.
A Traite de politique (published 1866), which may be considered as the completion of his Traite de philosophie, was the most important of the productions of the last See also:period of his life
.
His brochures are very numerous and on a great variety of subjects, medical, historical, political, philosophical, &c
.
He died on the 12th of See also:August 1865
.
He found a See also:disciple of considerable ability
in M
.
A
.
Ott, who advocated and applied his principles in various writings
.
See also A
.
Ott, " P
.
B
.
J
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Buchez," in See also:Journal See also:des economistes for 1865
.
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