Durkheim, Émile. 1884. Cours de philosophie fait au Lycée de Sens. Paris. Written manuscript. Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Manuscript 2351. Student lecture notes taken from Durkheim's course on philosophy in 1883-84. Notes taken by the French philosopher, Andre Lalande.
Editorial note:
We first learned of the existence of these notes from Durkheim's lecture-course on philosophy at the Lycée de Sens, made by the philosopher André Lalande, in the early spring of 1996. With the generous assistance of Neil Gross, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, we were able to obtain a complete copy of the lecture notes on microfiche by early summer. We are currently in the process of transcribing the microfiche to machine-readable form, and the complete text of the notes will be accessible here within the next few months. The microfiche has been typed into a word processor by a French typist, Julia Miesle. The machine-readable transcription of the lecture notes (like all of the Durkheim documents) is then being stored in an application called FrameMaker + SGML, which allows us to preserve detailed information about the content and structure of the documents themselves. At this point, each lecture is being proof-read by Henrietta Boudros, a graduate student in the French Department here.
Unfortunately, few web browsers are yet configured in a way enabling the user to view these so-called SGML documents, so I've converted them to HTML documents. This explains the frequent references, for example, to Lalande's rendering of Greek words and phrases as "[Greek]" -- i.e., HTML is incapable of rendering the Greek characters in the midst of English text.
There are also passages in the original documents that are difficult to make out. Here again, I've used brackets to indicate the ambiguity or illegibility. We will be comparing the first complete electronic edition with the microfiche again later this fall, in the effort to accurately render as many of these ambiguities as possible.
We have provided a brief "table des matières" below, to give Durkheim scholars an overview of the content of Durkheim's course, and also to provide links to the individual lectures themselves. [R.A.J.]
A. NOTIONS PRELIMINAIRES |
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I.
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Objet et méthode de la philosophie |
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II.
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Objet et méthode de la philosophie (suite) |
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III.
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La science et la philosophie |
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IV.
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Divisions de la philosophie |
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C. LOGIQUE |
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XXXVIII.
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Introduction |
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Logique générale |
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XXXIX.
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De la verité; de la certitude |
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XL.
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De la certitude (suite). Certitude morale |
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XLI.
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De la certitude fausse ou erreur |
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XLII.
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Du scepticisme; du dogmatisme; du criticisme |
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XLIII.
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L'idée; le terme; Le jugement; la proposition |
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XLIV.
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De la définition |
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XLV.
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Du syllogisme |
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XLVI.
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De l'induction |
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XLVII.
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Des sophismes |
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Méthodologie |
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XLVIII.
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De la méthode en général |
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XLIX.
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De la méthode en mathématique |
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L.
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De la méthode dans les sciences physiques |
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LI.
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De la méthode dans les sciences naturelles |
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LII.
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De la méthode dans les sciences morales |
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LIII.
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De la méthode en histoire |
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Appendice |
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LIV.
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Du langage |
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D. MORALE |
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LV.
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Définitions et divisions de la morale |
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Morale théorique |
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LVI.
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De la responsabilité morale |
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LVII.
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De la loi morale. L'historique de l'utilitarisme |
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LVIII.
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Critique de l'utilitarisme. Morale du sentiment |
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LIX.
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Morale Kantienne |
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LX.
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De la loi morale |
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LXI.
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Du devoir et du bien; de la vertu; du droit |
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Morale pratique |
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LXII.
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Morale individuelle |
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LXIII.
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Morale domestique |
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LXIV.
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Morale civique |
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LXV.
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Devoirs généraux de la vie sociale |
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LXVI.
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Devoirs généraux de la vie sociale. Devoirs de justice |
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LXVII.
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Devoirs généraux de la vie sociale. Devoirs de charité |
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LXVIII.
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Résumé de la morale |
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E. METAPHYSIQUE |
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LXIX.
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Notions préliminaires |
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LXX.
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De l'âme et de son existence |
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LXXI.
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Du matérialisme |
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LXXII.
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Des rapports de l'âme et du corps |
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LXXIII.
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De l'immortalité de l'âme |
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LXXIV.
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De Dieu. Preuves métaphysiques de ton existence |
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LXXV.
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Critique de ces preuves |
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LXXVI.
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Exposition et critique de la preuve psycho-théologique |
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LXXVII.
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Preuve psycho-théologique (fin). Preuves morales |
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LXXVIII.
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De la nature et des attributs de Dieu |
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LXXIX.
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Du dualisme. Du panthéisme. De la création |
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XXC.
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De la Providence, du Mal, de l'Optimisme et du Pessimisme |
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