Les éditions des philosophes écossais par Théodore Jouffroy. Mouvement historique et réforme philosophique

Abstract

Théodore Jouffroy’s editorial work was exclusively devoted to the introduction and translation of Scottish philosophers: Dugald Stewart’s Outlines of Moral Philosophy, and Thomas Reid’s Complete Works. Our study attempts to determine the meaning of these editions, which Jouffroy did not conceive as a contribution to the history of philosophy, but rather as a reflection on the nature and organisation of philosophical sciences. In the first section of this paper I describe the complex editorial context in which these editions were developed. In the second part, I show, mainly on the basis of the preface to Thomas Reid’s Complete Works, how the relationship between Jouffroy and Victor Cousin evolved.

Keywords

• Jouffroy (Théodore)
• Cousin (Victor)
• Scottish school of philosophy
• skepticism
• eclecticism
• French philosophy from the 19th century