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See also:PIERRE See also:LAROMIGUILRE (1756-1837) , See also:French philosopher, was See also:born at Livignac on the 3rd of See also:November 1756, and died on the 12th of See also:August 1837 in See also:Paris . As See also:professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Toulouse he was unsuccessful and incurred the censure of the See also:parliament by a thesis on the rights of See also:property in connexion with See also:taxation . Subsequently he came to Paris, where he was appointed professor of See also:logic in the &See also:cole Normale and lectured in the Prytanee . In 1799 he was made a member of the Tribunate, and in 1833 of the See also:Academy of Moral and See also:Political See also:Science . In 1793 he published Projet d'elements de metaphysique, a See also:work characterized by lucidity and excellence of See also:style . He wrote also two Memoires, read before the See also:Institute, See also:Les Paradoxes de See also:Condillac (18o5) and Legons de philosophie (1815-1818) . Laromiguiere's philosophy is interesting as a revolt against the extreme physiological See also:psychology of the natural scientists, such as See also:Cabanis . He distinguished between those psychological phenomena which can be traced directly to purely See also:physical causes, and the actions of the soul which originate from within itself . Psychology was not for him a See also:branch of See also:physiology, nor on the other See also:hand did he give to his theory an abstruse metaphysical basis . A See also:pupil of Condillac and indebted for much of his ideology to Destutt de See also:Tracy, he attached a See also:fuller importance to See also:Attention as a psychic See also:faculty . Attention provides the facts, Comparison See also:groups and combines them, while See also:Reason systematizes and explains . The soul is active in its choice, i.e. is endowed with See also:free-will, and is, therefore, immortal . For natural science as a method of See also:discovery he had no respect . He held that its judgments are, at the best, statements of identity, and that its so-called discoveries are merely the reiteration, in a new See also:form, of previous truisms . Laromiguiere was not the first to develop these views; he owed much to Condillac, Destutt de Tracy and Cabanis . But, owing to the accuracy of his See also:language and the purity of his style, his See also:works had See also:great See also:influence, especially over Armand Marrast, Cardaillac and See also:Cousin . A lecture of his in the Ecole Normale impressed Cousin so strongly that he at once devoted himself to the study of philosophy . See also:Jouffroy and Tafne agree in describing him as one of the great thinkers of the 19th See also:century . See See also:Damiron, Essai sur la philosophic en See also:France au XIX' siecle; Biran, Examen See also:des lecons de philosophie; See also:Victor Cousin, De Methodo sivc de Analysi; See also:Daunou, See also:Notice sur Laromiguiere; H . Tafne, Les Philosophes classiques du XIX' siecle; Gatien Arnoult, Etude sur Laromiguiere; See also:Compayre, Notice sur Laromiguiere; Ferraz, Spiritualisme et Libe'ralisme; F . Picavet, Les Ideologues . |
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