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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, PIERRE JEAN GEORGE (1757-1808)

Cabanis. He distinguished between those psychological phenomena which can be traced directly to purely See also:

PHYSICAL

physical causes, and the actions of the soul which originate from within itself. Psychology was not for him a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of See also:

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

physiology, nor on the other See also:

hand did he give to his theory an abstruse metaphysical basis. A See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

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 (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

Attention as a psychic See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty. Attention provides the facts, Comparison See also:

groups and combines them, while See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

Reason systematizes and explains. The soul is active in its choice, i.e. is endowed with See also:

FREE

free-will, and is, therefore, immortal.

For natural science as a method of See also:

DISCOVERY

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 (Lat. forma)

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 (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and the purity of his style, his See also:

WORKS

works had See also:

GREAT

great See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

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 (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. See See also:

DAMIRON, JEAN PHILIBERT (1794-1862)

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, PIERRE CLAUDE FRANCOIS (1761-1840)

Daunou, See also:

NOTICE

Notice sur Laromiguiere; H. Tafne, Les Philosophes classiques du XIX' siecle; Gatien Arnoult, Etude sur Laromiguiere; See also:

COMPAYRE, JULES GABRIEL (1843– )

Compayre, Notice sur Laromiguiere; Ferraz, Spiritualisme et Libe'ralisme; F. Picavet, Les Ideologues.

End of Article: LAROMIGUILRE, PIERRE (1756-1837)

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