JANET

janet, paul (1823-1899), french philosophical writer, was born in paris on the 30th of april 1823. he was professor of moral philosophy at bourges (1845-1848) and strassburg (1848-1857), and of logic at the lycee louis-le-grand, paris (1857-1864). in 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of the moral and political sciences. he wrote a large number of books and articles upon philosophy, politics and ethics, on idealistic lines: _la famille, histoire de la philosophie dans l'antiquite et dans le temps moderne, histoire de la science politique, philosophie de la revolution francaise_, &c. they are not characterized by much originality of thought. in philosophy he was a follower of victor cousin, and through him of hegel. his principal work in this line, _theorie de la morale_, is little more than a somewhat patronizing reproduction of kant. he died in october 1899.