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Eighth Study — Conscience and Liberty — parallel English

[These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward establishing an edition of Proudhon’s works in English. They are very much a first step, as there are lots of decisions about how best to render the texts which can only be answered in the course of the translation process. It seems important to share the work as it is completed, even in rough form, but the drafts are not suitable for scholarly work or […]
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Huitième étude — Conscience et liberté — français parallèle

HUITIÈME ÉTUDE CONSCIENCE ET LIBERTÉ CHAPITRE PREMIER. Objections théologiques : Qu’il s’agit moins de donner les formules de la Justice que d’en procurer l’observance, laquelle ne peut se passer de religion.   I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N° 8. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE. ——— HUITIÈME ÉTUDE. CONSCIENCE ET LIBERTÉ. CHAPITRE PREMIER. Objections théologiques : Qu’il s’agit bien moins de donner les formules Justice que d’en procurer l’observance, pour laquelle on ne se peut passer de religion. Monseigneur, Fénelon, au xixe livre du Télémaque, conduisant son héros aux enfers, lui donne cette leçon de théologie : « Télémaque, […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Eighth Study

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] PROUDHON LIBRARY home page Justice in the Revolution and in the Church (in progress):: Popular Philosophy: Program [draft] First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice Second Study: Persons Third Study: Goods Fourth Study: The State [excerpts] Fifth Study: Education Sixth Study: Labor Seventh Study: Ideas Eighth Study: Conscience and Freedom [excerpts] Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence Tenth Study: Love and Marriage Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (continued) Twelfth Study: Moral Sanction [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] CHAPTER V Nature and function of liberty. XXXI. Let us finish first with the ambiguity which, on this […]