Gabriel Madinier

Gabriel Madinier is a Philosophe French (Lyon, July 8th 1895 - Idid. December 12th 1958).

Biography

After having stopped its studies by war 14-18 where it is wounded, Madinier between with the National university in 1919. Aggregate of philosophy in 1922, it is named arts doctor in 1938. After having taught in the secondary between 1923 and 1940 (Alençon, Bourges and Lyon), he becomes lecturer at the university from Montpellier then in Lyon in 1941. He dies in this city, following an operation in 1958. Legion of honor

Leon Husson speaks about Madinier in these terms: " The man was worthy of his philosophy: discrete, modest and not involved; scornful of the noise and the glare; of a scrupulous conscience; of a sure judgment; of a great delicacy and a great kindness. It devoted to teaching, where it succeeded admirably, most of its forces. He faced with a traquille courage the operation of which he did not owe réveiller." (Leon Husson, " Note biographique" in Gabriel Madinier, Towards a reflexive philosophy , 1960)

The thought of Madinier

The thought of Madinier is built in the furrow of the French Philosophie of the spirit. According to the reflexive method, he sought through the concrete demonstrations of the conscience (gestures) the act originating in Ego which is directed towards the value and fact appears of metaphysical base of our existence.

" Any act of a subject is more than one event and has an aspect which is not empirical. The conscience of this aspect is reflection. It is not a knowledge which aims at a circumscribed term, but, in knowledge, it is conscience of relation to what this knowledge implies. It is relation with the absolute (...) " ( Conscience and significance , p. 134)

In its thesis Conscience and movement , Madinier tries to seize an interior dash with Ego which is characterized by the assent with the voluntary act: the subject gives direction to the objects and is distinguished some. Of that only, Madinier develops a philosophy of the interiority which tries to maintain the topic of an interior seizure: it is only by this means, shows T it, that it Me is posed and that there is self-awareness. But attention, this seizure is not that of a " image" ego but well of the subject as it gives itself to him even the being since the reflection is not other than the act by which we pourvons to affirm ourselves. Faithful to French spiritualism, it is for him the spiritual life which is the point of haste of the reflection, because it is in it that the subject is seized best and most clearly like dependant and different; that it is seized like oneself.

" The subject is reflected as well as possible in what one can call the spiritual experiment. It becomes there aware of its true being by a conversion towards its principle and in the joy of the unit interview. In any spiritual experiment, the subject feels enriched, open and raised by forces which exceed it, and it discovers there the immediate certainty of the significances which apply to they-mêmes" (ibid, p. 135).

The interior act then reveals the gestural characteristic of the conscience which is only significance. The epic then starts again unceasingly the presence of the conscience to itself. But, that does not say anything to us on the subject in itself and that does not guarantee its validity. Merleau-Ponty objects to reflexive philosophy the presence of a subject-source. But Madinier shows, using its theory of the sign and by maintaining its method reflexive that the spirit is spread in the language which constitutes this whole of signs which renvoit conscience with itself (one can think of the distance or the depth). The human world is a whole of significances which constitutes the experiment of the man continuously. To avoid a thought of empty and transparent subjectivity, removed from any subject, Madinier will try to link the two reflexive experiments: that which are directed towards the logical movement of the thought and that which aims at the real subject which continues like being-with-world. How does the unit appear? When the subject is turned over towards the principle which founds all its activity: the truth as it obliges to exceed the order of the objective and relative speech towards the value.

" The interior attitude which connects to us of truth with the hearth is the fact of all that we are, intelligence and will. (...) The individual, honestly and courageously directed towards the truth, is already formally installed in it (...) He is necessary well indeed that to the principle of its action our conscience grants the spiritual dynamism which has it more still than it has it. Very thought begin with an act which leaves the inside and by which this thought agrees to be measured by the être." (ibid, p 125-126)

Works

Conscience and movement , study on the French philosophy of Condillac with Bergson (foreword of Aime Forest), Paris, PUF, 1938; Paris, Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, 1967.
Conscience and love, test on the " nous" , Paris, PUF, 1938.
Conscience and significance, test on the reflection , Paris, PUF, 1953.
moral conscience , Paris, PUF, 1954.
Towards a reflexive philosophy , coll " To be and Penser" , Neuchâtel, Natural Baconnière, 1960.
and mystery of the family, " books of the Topicality religieuse" , Paris, casterman, 1961.

Works and articles on Gabriel Madinier

F. Andre Bergeron, the philosophy of the conscience and the reflection according to Gabriel Madinier , Leuwen-the-New, 1963.
Jerome Ndaye Mufike, Of the conscience to the love. The philosophy of Gabriel Madinier , Rome, 2001.
Aime Forest, " The thought of Gabriel Madinier" in Towards a reflexive philosophy , Neuchâtel, Baconnière, 1960.
Louis Lavelle, " Conscience and movement - Conscience and amour" in Moral and religion , Paris, Albin Michel, 1960, pp. 38-41.
Jean Lacroix, Panorama of contemporary French philosophy , Paris, PUF, 1966, pp. 24-30.
Miandkolila Baloki, concept of conscience in the thought of Gabriel Madinier , Catholic Faculty of Theology, Kinshasa, 1983.
Santino Cavacuiti, Libertà ED essere: testi di Maine de Biran, Vacherot, Blondel, Lavelle, Madinier, Forest , ED. del Testimone, Massarosa-Lucca, 1996.
A. Cantoni, " Gabriel Madinier. Realismo beyond significanza, Benucci Editor, Perugia 1978" in Rivista di Filosofia neo-scolastica , 1982, pp. 174-177

See too

Metaphysical
History of metaphysics

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