Louis Eugène Marie Bautain

Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (* 1795 or 1796 in Paris, † 1867) was a Catholic philosopher and priest, who struggled for the freedom of research.

Life

After studies empiricist and idealist philosophy, he was in 1817 professor of philosophy at the Academy at Strasbourg, but was released after the consent priestly denunciations and then studied medicine ( completion 1826). Through his contact with the circle around Louise Humann he found greater access to religion. He studied theology and was even ordained a priest (1828 ). After that, he was reinstated in his professorship at Strasbourg; but again accused the bishop as a heretic and suspended in 1834. In 1838 he personally investigated in Rome for his rehabilitation at; then in 1841 succeeded.

Work

His philosophical theology emerged in the turmoil surrounding the secularization. He defends the living faith of Catholicism in the enlightened world, but not only as a pretext for quasi- caesaropapist Policy ( Ultraroyalismus ) as de Maistre or de Bonald (father, son ), but especially against their own scholasticism and they defending Magisterium. He calls for scientific freedom for philosophy and religious freedom for the faith. He wants to leave the faith, what faith is, but without distorting the knowledge or science subordinate to a teacher. He penetrates to a religious philosophy that is modern in its contemporary reasoning and judgment, open to Republican developments, but the felt in the conscience of faith and encounter each revelation in the Gospels their own reality zubilligt ( fideism ).

Effect

Bautain was received wide, and had many students, some of which were also connected him konventikelhaft. About his pupil Gratry he also acted in reform Catholic ( free ) churches continue ( Hyacinthe Loyson, Old Catholicism ). His work took a moment to virulent contemporary issues, fueling a Catholic education not only episkopalistisch from above ( Hontheim, Sailer ), but at the interface to Republican demands ( Lamennais, Montalembert ). Bautain constituted a Catholic liberal theology. The appeal to him was not offensive, because he had been able to circumnavigate a permanent conviction. He died just before the proclamation of the Infallibilitätsdogmas, so it will not be a commitment on obligation to (and thus forced to exclude ) was. Its tradition led within the Catholic Church continues to modernism, but you could also interdenominational some overlap found with Kierkegaard and even the dialectical theology.

Works

• Leçons dicitèes de philosophie morale, 1818
• La morale de l' Évangile comparée à la morale of the philosophes ( prize essay ), 1827 again 1855. ( German Geiger. Altdorf 1830)
• De l' enseignement de la philosophie en France au XIX. siècle, Strasbourg 1833
• Together with his student Ms H. de Bonnechose: La philosophy you Christianisme, Strasbourg. 2 vols 1835
• La psychology expérimentale. 2 vols Strasbourg 1839
• Philosophy morale. 2 Bde 1842
• Religion et la liberté. Paris 1848.
• L'esprit humain et ses facultés. 1859
• La philosophie des lois au point de vue chrétien (1860 )
• La conscience ou la regle of actions humaines (1861 )
• Manuel de philosophie morale (1866 ).