Felix Ravaisson

Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (Namur, October 23rd 1813 - Paris, May 18th 1900) is a Philosophe and Archéologue French which was the Master of Henri Bergson. Its philosophy fits in a vein aristotelician worked by the biranism. According to the majority of the historiographic sources in this connection, Ravaisson would have been isolated university education by its Master Victor Cousin, of which he criticized eclecticism, and relegates thus to more administrative functions. It was preserving department of antiquities to the Musée of Louvre, president of the jury of the Agrégation of philosophy, General inspector of the Libraries…

It also influenced authors like Paul Ricoeur, whose first work (Philosophy of the will) must to the Namurian philosopher much. It obtained the admiration of Heidegger which was fascinated by its thesis practice (1838). Very many contemporary authors were interested in Ravaisson: Jacques Derrida, Dominique Janicaud, François Laruelle, Claude Bruaire, Pierre Montebello…

Philosophical works

Of the practice 1st ED. 1838, reprinting PUF, Quadriga, 1999. * Test on the metaphysics of Aristote 1837-1845 (3 volumes of which one with the state of outline), reprinting ED. stag, 2007.
Report/ratio on philosophy in France at the XIXème century 1867, reprinting Beech, 1984.
Metaphysical and moral in Review of Metaphysics and Morals, 1893. * philosophical Will in Review of Metaphysics and Morals, 1901. * The National library of France preserves, with the Département of the Western Manuscripts (Site " Richelieu"), great majority of the various funds of files containing its manuscripts. * The Institute of France preserves the manuscript of its report on the Metaphysics of Aristote which was preceded in 1833 by the Policy and Academy of Science Morals.

Other works

Greek Art and Mysteries (reprinting with the editions of Herne, 1985)
Of the teaching of the drawing in the colleges , Paris, Paul Dupont, 1854

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