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Philosophy --- History --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Psychologie --- Morale

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"The lectures, of which a translation is now presented, are the first which Jouffroy, who is professor in the Faculty of Literature at Paris, has published. Their design may be best explained by the following extract from the author's preface:--"It seemed to me that, in the progressive development of my ideas upon the grand problem of human destiny, those upon ethics could most readily be separated from the rest; and I was influenced by this additional consideration, that it was my purpose before entering upon the science of ethics, to pass in review the various systems which had prevailed in relation to the fundamental principles of morality. This would give me an opportunity to explain my own system, and thus sum up the results of my previous researches. Feeling uncertain whether I shall be able to complete my plan, I shall subdivide my series of lectures into several parts, of which each will form a separate work. The First, under the title of an Introduction to Ethics (see record 2008-12158-000 for the first volume), will be devoted to a consideration of the fundamental principles of moral science, and will include, beside my own views, a review and criticism of all the important solutions which have been given of these problems." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethics --- Ethics. --- Philosophy.

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The following translation contains three extracts from the philosophical writings of Jouffroy, one of the most profound of the French philosophers of the nineteenth century, and a pupil of the celebrated Cousin. The first extract, the "Problem of Human Destiny," is taken from the "Melanges Philosophiques." The second extract, treating of the "Moral Facts of Human Nature," has been previously translated by the Rev. William H. Channing. The third extract, contains Jouffroy's "Theoretical Views" of Morality. The three extracts taken together, form a complete whole. The first lays down the problem of human destiny, and shows that the problem can only be solved philosophically by a study of the facts of human nature. The second gives a description of the moral facts of human nature. The moral facts of human nature being ascertained, the third extract gives us the moral law that we ought to obey, in order to accomplish as fully as possible our destiny in this world. Although knowing that the translation is not what it might be, and that it contains many imperfections, the translator still hopes that it may give to the students of philosophy in this country some knowledge of a writer so little known to us and yet so deserving of our attention.

Ethics. --- Values.