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FOUILLEE, ALFRED JULES EMILE (1838– )

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FOUILLEE, See also:ALFRED JULES EMILE (1838– ) , See also:French philosopher, was See also:born at La Poueze on the 18th of See also:October 1838. He held several See also:minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was See also:professor of See also:philosophy at the lycees of See also:Douai, See also:Montpellier and See also:Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the See also:Academy of Moral See also:Science for his See also:work on See also:Plato and Sdcrates. In 1872 he was elected See also:master of conferences at the Ecole Normale, and was made See also:doctor of philosophy in recognition of his two See also:treatises, Platonis Hippias Minor sine Socratica contra liberum arbitriu'm argumenta and La Liberte et le determinisme. The See also:strain of the next three years' continuous work undermined his See also:health and his eyesight, and he was compelled to retire from his professorship. During these years he had published See also:works on Plato and See also:Socrates and a See also:history of philosophy (1875); but after his retirement he further See also:developed his philosophical position, a speculative See also:eclecticism through which he endeavoured to reconcile metaphysical See also:idealism with the naturalistic and See also:mechanical standpoint of science. In L'Evolutionnisme See also:des idees-forces (189o), La Psychologie des idees-forces (1893), and La Morale des idees-forces (1907), is elaborated his See also:doctrine of idees forces, or of mind as efficient cause through the tendency of ideas to realize themselves in appropriate See also:movement. Ethical and sociological developments of this theory succeed its See also:physical and psychological treatment, the See also:consideration of the See also:antinomy of freedom being especially important. Fouillee's wife, who by a previous See also:marriage was the See also:mother of the poet and philosopher See also:Jean See also:Marie Guyau (1854–1888), is well known, under the See also:pseudonym of " G. See also:Bruno," as the author of educational books for See also:children. His other See also:chief works are: L'Idee moderne du See also:droit en Allemagne, en Angleterre et en See also:France (See also:Paris, 1878) ; La Science sociale contemporaine (188o); La Propriete sociale et la democratie (1884); Critique des systemes de morale contemporains (1883); La Morale, fart et la See also:religion d'apres Guyau (1889) ; L'Avenir de la metaphysique fondee sur l'experience (1889) ; L'Enseignement au point de vue See also:national (1891); See also:Descartes (1893); Temperament etcaractere (2nd ed., 1895); Le Mouvement positiviste et la conception sociologique du monde (1896) ; Le Mouvement idealism et la reaction contre la science See also:positive (1896); La Psychologie du pei'ple See also:francais (2nd ed., 1898); La France au point de vue moral (1900); L'Esquisse psychologique des peuples europeens (1903) ; See also:Nietzsche et l' " immoralisme " (1903) ; Le Moralisme de See also:Kant (1905).

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