1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of cultural history concerning the French Ideology
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09610501
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
仏語・仏文学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
AKAMA Hiroyuki Department of human system science, assistant professor, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 助教授 (60242301)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
赤間 啓之 東京工業大学, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 助教授 (60242301)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
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| Keywords | ideology / Stoicism / Destutt de Tracy / French Revolution / Cabanis / guillotine / sensitivity / medical philosophy |
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| Research Abstract |
The term "ideology" was invented by Destutt de Tracy in the epoch of French Revolution, and defined by the philosopher as a science to trace the generation of human ideas. Our study has been made for the purpose of situating concretely the activities of "ideologues " (Tracy's friends, Georges Cabanis, for example) in the large but sometimes invisible stream of history : we have clarified the obscure context in which contemporary political, medical and ethical realms were related to each other. The Stoic belief of Cabani's old age, enigmatic conversion taken as an issue of ephemeral ideology, had something to do with the political and medico-philosophical works of his middle age. In the revolutionary era, he had agreed to the implementation of guillotine penalty, by reason that according to the medical view of sensitivity--same as the Stoic logic, all the convicts might feel no pain in this machine. We treated this theme in the conference of ASPLF held at Laval University (Canada), in august, 1998.
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