Etienne Gilson

Etienne Gilson (June 13rd 1884 with Paris - September 19th 1978 with Cravant (Yonne)) is a Philosophe and Historien French.

Its life

Gilson taught the history of the medieval Philosophie of 1921 to 1932 with the Sorbonne, where the weather had been its studies before, before occupying the pulpit of medieval philosophy to the Collège de France. In 1929 it takes part in the foundation of the pontifical Institute of studies medieval of Toronto to the Canada. Although being in the beginning specialist in history of philosophy, it was also one of the leaders of the neo-thomist movement roman catholic. He was elected with the French Academy in 1946. Its meeting with the bookseller Joseph Vrin was at the origin of the creation of the editions Vrin.

Its work

Gilson analyzed the historical Thomisme in manner. For Gilson, the thomism is not identified with the Scolastique, but is built rather against it. Gilson did not detect a decline of philosophy in a science which would announce the renouncement of the man of his right to judge and regulate nature, the man not being any more but one simple part of nature: green light would then be given according to him to the most inconsistent companies and désatreuses as regards company whose the men and the human institutions would be victims. Against the philosophical systems, Gilson was convinced that the back in favor of the philosophy of Thomas d' Aquin could make it possible to leave this danger zone.

Gilson was a very prolific writer, and its many writings of Histoire of philosophy, primarily medieval, are much read and discussed.

Publications

Freedom at Descartes and Theology , Alcan, 1913.
thomism, introduction to the system of saint Thomas , Vrin, 1919.
Studies of medieval philosophy, University of Strasbourg, 1921.

philosophy with the Middle Ages, flight. I: De Scot Erigène with saint Bonaventure , Payot, 1922.

philosophy with the Middle Ages, vol.II: Of saint Thomas d' Aquin with Guillaume d' Occam , Payot, 1922.

the philosophy of saint Bonaventure , Vrin, 1924.

Rene Descartes. Discourse on Method, text and comment , Vrin, 1925.

Holy Thomas d' Aquin , Gabalda, 1925.

Introduction to the study of Saint Augustin , Paris, J. Vrin, 1929. (Studies of medieval philosophy; 11). ISBN 2-7116-2027-1.

Studies on the role of the medieval thought in the formation of the Cartesian system , Vrin, 1930. ISBN 2-7116-0285-0

the spirit of medieval philosophy , Vrin, 1932.

Ideas and the Letters , Vrin, 1932.

For a catholic order , Desclée de Brouwer, 1934.

the mystical theology of saint Bernard , Vrin, 1934.

methodical realism , Téqui, 1935.

Christianity and philosophy , Vrin, 1936.

The Unity off Philosophical Experiment , Scribner' S, 1937.

Héloïse and Abélard , Vrin, 1938.

Dante and philosophy , Vrin, 1939.

Realism critical thomist and of knowledge , Vrin, 1939.

Theology and history of spirituality , Vrin, 1943.

Our democracy , S.E.R.P., 1947.

the being and the gasoline , Vrin, 1948.

Holy Bernard, texts selected and presented , Plon, 1949.

the School of the Muses , Vrin, 1951.

Jean Duns Scot, introduction to its fundamental positions , Vrin, 1952.

metamorphoses of the city of God , Vrin, 1952.

Painting and reality , Vrin, 1958.

the Philosopher and Theology , Beech, 1960.

Introduction to Christian philosophy , Vrin, 1960.

the peace of wisdom , Aquinas, 1960.

Three lessons on the problem of the existence of God , Divinitas, 1961.

the being and God , Re-examined thomist, 1962.

Introduction to arts of the Beautiful , Vrin, 1963.

Matters and forms , Vrin, 1965.

tribulations of Sophie , Vrin, 1967.

the company of mass and its culture , Vrin, 1967.

Homage to Bergson , Linguistic Vrin, 1967.

and philosophy , Vrin, 1969.

D' Aristote with Darwin and return , Vrin, 1971.

Dante and Béatrice, studies dantesques , Vrin, 1974.

Holy Thomas moralist , Vrin, 1974.

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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