Maine de Biran

Pierre Maine de Biran , of its true name Marie-François-Pierre Gontier de Biran (November 29th 1766 with Bergerac - July 20th 1824 with Paris) is a French philosopher.

Biography

Beginnings (1766-1795)

The great failures (1795-1802)

Marriage

Biran under the Directory

Maine philosophizes (1802-1824)

Its thought

Maine de Biran was initially a sensualist, following the example Condillac and of Locke; it turned then to the Intellectualisme, and became finally a mystical theosophist.

Its first writings are written under the influence of Locke and Condillac, but comprise some elements heralding its later interests. The Essai on the bases of psychology represents the second phase of its thought, and the fragments of the Nouveaux tests of anthropology the third.

He studied the problem of the formation of the practices, and noticed that the concept of passive impression cannot be enough to give a complete explanation of it. As it supported as the attention as active effort does not have less importance than the passive receptivity of the directions, and it distinguished from the passive and active forms of practices. It was thus led to judge that the concept of receptibility passivates of Condillac (like mechanical and formative external source of the conscious experiment) was an error of method.

Judgments on Maine de Biran

Work

  • Influence of the practice on faculty to think. Work which gained the price over this question, suggested by the class of sciences morals and policies of the national institute: To determine which is the influence of the practice on faculty to think; or, in other words, to show the effect, Henrichs, Paris, Year XI.

  • Test on the bases of psychology and its relationship with the study of nature , 1812.
  • Exposure of the philosophical doctrines of Leibnitz , Michaud, Bet, 1819.
  • New Considerations on the Reports/ratios of the Physique and Moral of the Man . Posthumous work published by Mr. Cousin, Paris, Ladrange, 1834.
  • new Works , published by Ernest Naville, with the collaboration of Marc Debrit, Dezobry, E. Magdeleine and Co., Paris, 1859 (3 vol.)
  • philosophical speeches of Bergerac , Felix Alcan, Paris, 1925.
  • Diary (1792 - 1824) , with a foreword, a transl. and notes by A. of Valette-Monbrun, Plon, 1927, (2 vol.)
  • Newspaper . Integral edition published by H.Gouhier, ED. from Baconnière, 1954/55.

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