Edouard Roy

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Edouard Roy (June 18th 1870 with Paris - November 10th 1954 in Paris) is a Philosophe French. Tardily entered with the college, Roy prepares the entrance examination to the National university where it is received in 1892. Incorporated mathematics in 1895, he becomes doctor of sciences in 1898. Teaching in several colleges, it becomes in 1909 mathematics professor with the Lycée Saint-Louis of Paris.

Consequently, Roy takes astonishing turning towards philosophy and metaphysics. Friend of Teilhard of Chardin and Henri Bergson, this last chooses it to succeed to him the pulpit of Greek and Latin philosophy of the Collège de France. Elected official member of the Academy of Science morals and political in 1919, it once again succeeds Bergson with the French Academy in 1945.

Between science and morals and in the furrow of the search bergsonnienne, Roy wondered in particular about the relationship between science and morals.

With Henri Poincaré (which criticizes it in the Value of Science ) and Pierre Duhem, it took part in the revival of the philosophy of sciences of its time. Basing itself on the intiutionism of Bergson to criticize the abusive claims of science, it defends a point of view radically conventionalist and pragmatic. Science is made only arbitrary or artificial conventions of which the only positive end is to be used to us as rule of action. Science thus does not reach the truth and even less the bottom of the things.

This anti-intellectualism leads it, in the field of the religion, to privilege the heart, the feeling or the instinctive faith, and to reject the dogmas, speculative theology, the abstract reasoning. This position will be worth to him the charge of Modernisme and the setting with the index of its works.

Works

  • On the integration of the equations of heat (1898)

  • Science and philosophy (1899)
  • Dogma and critical (1907)
  • a new philosophy: Henri Bergson (1912)
  • What Science?: answer to André Metz (1926)
  • the idealistic Requirement and the fact of the evolution (1927)
  • human Origins and evolution of the intelligence (1928)
  • the intuitive Thought. The problem of God (1929)
  • Introduction to the study of the religious problem (1944)
  • A tentative a philosophy first: the idealistic requirement and the moral requirement , 2 vol., posthumous (1956-1958)

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