Jules Lagneau

Jules Lagneau , born in Metz on August 8th, 1851, dead on April 22nd, 1894, is a professor of philosophy which, wondering about the perception and the conditions of knowledge, developed the reflexive Méthode in psychology.

Biography

Wire of workman, elder of a family of seven children, Lagneau was reached at four years of the small pox, affection which left serious after-effects of which it is truly never restored: he suffered all his life from crises of languor and controlled his food carefully. The lawyer and former republican deputy Voirhaye persuaded his father to send it to study with the college of Metz. After its success with the open Competition of the departments, the director of the Massin Institution proposed to him to prepare the entrance examination to the National university in its establishment.

When the Guerre of 1870 burst, it engaged in the franc-tireurs. Little time after its incorporation, it was in the surroundings of Metz, when it learned that one of his/her brothers had just been reached Typhoid fever. It went to see it, and itself was gained by this fever, which also embanked his/her father. On these entrefaites, the Prussians had made the seat of the city. After the capitulation, they published that they knew that a certain number of franc-tireurs were in their families and they summoned them to go under three days. Jules Lagneau managed to cross the enemy lines and gained the Luxembourg. From there, it rejoined the army of Faidherbe in Lille, was made there incorporate and was useful to with it until the end of the war.

Returned peace, it resumed its studies in preparatory class with the Lycée Charlemagne (1871-1872), and was allowed at the Teacher training school with the contest of 1872. On the other hand, it had to pass by again the license of philosophy, and was not allowed that the second time at aggregation (1875). It was deeply influenced as well by the requirement of rigor as by the idealism of its Master, Jules Lachelier. He taught successively in the colleges of Sens (1876-78), Saint-Quentin (1879-80), Nancy (1880-1886) and finally with the Lycée Michelet of Vanves (1887-1894), where he had in the person of Emile Chartier, alias Alain, its more famous disciple (1888).

Friend of Gabriel Séailles (1855-1922), it founded in 1893 with his colleague Leon Letellier (1859-1926) and the journalist Paul Desjardins (1859-1940) the Union for the moral Action , whose Simples notes constitute proclamation. This movement was transformed at the time of the Affaire Dreyfus into the Union for the Truth , and across caused the future philosophical conferences of the Décades of Pontigny .

Requiring on the contents of the expression, Lagneau was expressed with a slowness which released at many interlocutors (particularly inspectors and, later, inspectors) an impression of awkwardness and scorn. As a professor, it did not explain a very built thought, but preferred the commentary of one or two books during the school year (generally Plato and Spinoza), per which it encouraged his students to reason starting from apparent contradictions that it represented to them. Lagneau scorned the eclecticism in favor near the State education in the years 1880, and made put under key the official handbooks sent in its college, with the great scandal of the general inspection.

Works

Simple notes for a program of union and action (1892)
Fragments of Jules Lagneau (1 to 90) , in Re-examined of metaphysics and morals (March 1898), meadows. by Emile Chartier
Famous lessons and fragments (1950, rééd. 1964), meadows. by Michel Alexandre, University Presses of France
E. Blondel - integral course 1886-87 (notes of course of Mr. Lejoindre, 5 vol.) (1996) ED. by the CRDP of Burgundy, Dijon
Written (2006), ED. pike perch

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