Pierre Laromiguière

Laromiguière Pierre ( born November 3, 1756 in Livignac, France, † August 12, 1837 in Paris) was a French philosopher.

Life

As a professor of philosophy at the University of Toulouse, he was unsuccessful and went for his theses on the protection of private property and the taxation disapproval of Parliament itself. Later he came to Paris, where he became professor of logic at the École normale supérieure and gave lectures in Prytanée. In 1799 he became a member of the tribunate and 1833 the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. In 1793 he published " Projet d' élements de métaphysique ," a work which is characterized by its clarity and its particular style. He wrote before his academic career, two treatises: " Les Paradoxes de Condillac " (1805 ) and " Le cours de philosophie " (1815 - 1818).

Laromiguières philosophy is a revolt against the view expressed by Cabanis and other physiological psychology of scientists. He distinguished between such physiological phenomena that can be traced back to purely physical causes and have the utterances of the soul which originated in itself. Psychology for him was neither a branch of physiology, nor are they required an abstruse metaphysical base. As a student of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and ideologically committed in many Destutt de Tracy, had a great significance for him attention as a psychic ability. Attention provides the facts, comparison groups and combining them as the mind systematized and explained. The soul makes an active choice, ie it is equipped with free will and is therefore immortal.

Before science as a research method he had no respect. He said that their judgments are, at best, claims an identity and their so-called discoveries are merely repetitions of the truisms in a new form. Laromiguière was not the first who held this view; he paid so Condillac, Destutt de Tracy and Cabanis tribute. The precision of his language and the purity of his style procured his works great influence, especially on Armand Marrast Louis Cardaillac and Victor Cousin. One of his lectures at the " Ecole Normale " impressed cousin so much that he immediately sprang to the study of philosophy. Hippolyte Taine Jouffroy and called him one of the great thinkers of the 19th century.

• University teachers (University of Toulouse)
• University teachers (ENS Paris)
• Philosopher of the early modern period
• Frenchman
• Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
• Born in 1756
• Died in 1837
• Man
• Tribune (France)