Leon Ollé-Laprune (1839 - Paris, the February 19th 1898) is a French catholic philosopher.

Biography

After having studied with the National university of 1858 with 1861, it is devoted to philosophy, under the influence of a work of the father Gratry, the Sources. During all its life, he teaches philosophy in the light of the catholic faith, in colleges, then at the National university starting from 1875. In 1881-1882, after having organized a demonstration against the expulsion of the congregations, it is suspended of its pulpit by Jules Ferry, but a protest is addressed to the minister, signed by the future socialist deputy Jean Jaurès, then studying at the National university.

Its first important work is the Philosophy of Malebranche , published in 1870. Ten years after having obtained its doctorate, it supports in front of the Sorbonne a thesis on the moral certainty.

Opposed to the Cartesian Rationalism and the Determinism positivist, it is interested in the share of the feelings and the will in the belief. In 1881, in its Test on the morals of Aristote , Ollé-Laprune defends the Eudémonisme of the Greek philosopher against the Kantian theories. In philosophy and time present (1890), it attacks the Spiritualisme deist and argues in favor of the right of the Christian thinker to go beyond the data of the natural Religion, to clarify philosophy thanks to the data of the revealed religion.

The recommendations made by Leon XIII with the catholics of France find as a Leon Ollé-Laprune a burning defender. In its booklet what one will seek in Rome (1895), it comments on the papal policy. In 1897, the Academy of Science morals and political chooses it to succeed Etienne Vacherot. Its articles and its conferences (many was gathered in 1901 by Georges Goyau under the title Christian vitality ) attest of its increasing influence in the catholic mediums. A few months after his death, the English philosopher William P. Coyne quotes it like “the largest laic French catholic since Ozanam”.