- Edouard Le Roy
Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (June 18, 1870 - November 10, 1954 ) was a
French philosopher andmathematician .Le Roy was received at the "
École Normale Supérieure " (ENS) in 1892, and at the "agrégation " inmathematics in 1895. He became Doctor in Sciences in 1898, taught in several high schools, and became in 1909 professor of mathematics at the "Lycée Saint-Louis " in Paris.From then on, Le Roy took an important interest in
philosophy andmetaphysics . A friend ofTeilhard de Chardin andHenri Bergson 's closer disciple, he succeeded to him at theCollege of France (1922) and, in 1945, at the "Académie française ". In 1919, Le Roy was also elected member of the "Académie des Sciences morales et politiques ".Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with
Henri Poincaré andPierre Duhem , he supported a conventionalist thesis on thefoundation of mathematics . Although a ferventCatholic , he extended this conventionalist theory to revealed truths, which did not, according to him, withdraw any of their strength. He rejected in the domain of religiondogma s, abstract reasonings and speculativetheology in favour of instinctive faith, heart and sentiment. He was one of those close to Bergson who encouraged him to turn to the study ofmysticism , explored in his later works. His conventionalism led his works, charged ofmodernism , to be placed on the Index by theHoly See .Works
*"What Is a Dogma?"
*"L'Exigence Idealiste Et Le Fait De L'Evolution" (1927)
*"Les Origines Humaines Et L'Evolution De L'Intelligence" (1928)
*"La Pensee Intuitive" (1929)
*"Discours De Reception De M Edouard Le Roy" (1946)
*"Essai D'Une Philosophie Premiere" (1956)
*"Bergson Et Bergsonisme" (1947)
*"A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson"ee also
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noosphere
*Pragmatism External links
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1347 A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] by Le Roy, at Project Gutenberg.
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