FOUILLEE

Alfred Juies Emile, French philosopher, born at La Pouéze, Maine-et-Loire, 18th Oct., 1838, died at Lyons 16th July, 1912. Educated at the lyceum of Laval, he was pro: fe or of philosophy at the lycées of Douai and Montpellier, and was subsequently appointed profe or of philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. In 1872 he was called to the EKeole Normale in Paris, but had to resign his post on account of ill-health and failing sight. 532 FOULA At first a follower of Plato, Fouillée afterwards adopted the theory of empiricism, and endeavoured to connect Plato’s idealism with the English doctrine of evolution. The synthesis of these doctrines he termed ‘the evolution of the ideal forces’? (motor ideas, or idées-forces). In 1867 he published Mémoires sur la philosophie de Platon,and Mémoires surlaphilosophie de Socrate, which were crowned by the French Academy. His other works include: La Liberté et le déterm in is me (1873); His to ire de la philosophie (1875); La Science sociale contempo raine(1880); Critiques des systémes de morale contempo raine (1883): La Morale, Vart, et la religion d’apreés Guyau (1889); La Psycho logie des idées forces (1893); Psycho logie du peuple franc a is (1898); Nietzsche et Pimmoralisme (1902); La Morale des idées forces (1907); Le Social is me et la so cio logie réformiste (1909); Hsqui e d’une interprétation du monde (1912).