PAUL

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• PAUL JANET (1823—1899)

JANET (1823—1899)  , French philosophical writer, was born in Paris on the 3oth of April 1823 . He was professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845—1848) and Strassburg (1848--1857), and of logic at the lycee Louis-le-Grand, Paris (1857-1864) . In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of the moral and political sciences . He wrote a large number of books and articles upon philosophy, politics and ethics, on idealistic lines : La Famille, Histoire de la philosophie daps l'antiquite et clans le temps moderne, Histoire de la science politique, Philosophie de la Revolution Francaise, &c . They are not characterized by much originality of thought . In philosophy he was a follower of Victor Cousin, and through him of Hegel . His principal work in this line, Theorie de la morale, is little more than a somewhat patronizing reproduction of Kant . He died in October 1899 .