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Renouvier: The Man and His Work (ii)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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It is difficult within the space of an article such as this to do more than indicate the principal features of Renouvier's philosophy, and it is, of course, impossible to give in detail a discussion of the immense wealth of thought and argument contained in his writings. Of his thought before 1854, the most important piece of work was the article on “Philosophie” written for the Encyclopédic Nouvelle. This in some respects shows his own thought developing in the direction

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1932

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page 187 note 1 Psychologie de Hume. Traité de la Nature humaine. Trad. Renouvier et Pillon. Préface par Pillon. P. lxviii.

page 187 note 2 Preface, Essai I (Logique), Tome I, p. xvi.

page 188 note 1 Renouvier's, remark in his note on the Kantian Categories. Logique I, p. 133 (Note B) to chap. xxvi.Google Scholar

page 192 note 1 On the many puzzling questions of Time, the reader may consult the writer's recent volume, The Problem of Time (Allen and Unwin Ltd.).

page 193 note 1 Cf. the very interesting remarks by Renouvier at the end of the first volume of his Psychologie rationnelle (1912 ed., pp. 369–93) on Lequier and philosophy; also the fragments reprinted by Renouvier in that work, “Comment trouver, comment chercher” (vol. i), on Subject and Object (vol. ii) and on Freedom.

page 195 note 1 Psychologie rationnelle, vol. i, p. 5.

page 196 note 1 Psychologie rationnelle, vol. ii, p. 78.

page 196 note 2 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 138.

page 197 note 1 Book X,Del’État actuel de la Philosophieen France.Chap. 1, “De l’Aboutissements des Esprits au Positivisme,” pp. 416–17.

page 197 note 2 Vol. ii, chap, xvii: “De la Certitude des Sciences et leur Classification rationnelle,” pp. 139–86, including later observations on Spencer.

page 198 note 1 Vol. i, pp. 107–15, and also vol. ii, pp. 202–45.

page 198 note 2 Logique, vol. ii, p. 321.Google Scholar

page 198 note 3 Note B to chap, xxxv of the Logique, vol. ii, p. 13.Google Scholar

page 198 note 4 For Cournot’s ideas and the parallel between his thought and that of Renouvier, see the writer’s book Modern French Philosophy.

page 198 note 5 This outburst of attack is a sample of Renouvier’s usual attitude to positivism. Deuxiéme Essai, vol. ii, pp. 166–70.Google Scholar

page 199 note 1 Logique, vol. ii, p. 352.