Justice in the Revolution and in the Church

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Second Study—Personnes—Parallel French

December 6, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur
— Formatting in progress — 1858 1860 ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — NO. 2 DEUXIÈME ÉTUDE LES PERSONNES CHAPITRE PREMIER. Principe de la dignité personnelle. Monseigneur, Puisque c’est à l’occasion d’un fait personnel que j’ai conçu l’idée de mon livre, permettez-moi d’abord de revenir sur ce fait, auquel vous n’êtes pas étranger, et de vous poser une question. Le particulier, dit la logique, reproduit le général ; le fait est nécessairement l’expression de l’idée. En partant d’un fait, nous n’arriverons que mieux à la loi, tandis que le contraire serait impossible. Telle n’est pas, j’en conviens, la méthode des révélateurs ; mais […]
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Of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church: Popular Philosophy—Program (1860)

July 28, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur
At the beginning of a new work, we should explain our title and our intentions.

Ever since humanity entered the period of civilization, for as long as anyone can recall, the people, said Paul Louis Courier, have prayed and paid.

They pray for their princes, for their magistrates, for their exploiters and their parasites;

They pray, like Jesus Christ, for their executioners;

They pray for the very ones who should, by rights, pray for them.

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PROJECT: Proudhon’s Essays in Popular Philosophy

April 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
The centerpiece of Proudhon’s mature work is almost certainly the 1860 second edition, in six volumes, of his longest published work: Of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church. First published in 1858, with the subtitle “New Principles of Practical Philosophy,” it was substantially revised and expanded for the new edition, which was presented as a series of “essais d’une philosophie populaire” — and we should probably allow the French term essai its full range of possible meanings: essay, but also trial, attempt, etc., to capture the experimental element in Proudhon’s work. The twelve studies in the work on […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Eleventh Study

March 29, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”] JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH ELEVENTH STUDY LOVE AND MARRIAGE [continued] […] CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection of the soul, every category of the intelligence, needs an organ, in order to manifest itself and act. The sentiment of Justice can be no exception to that law. But Justice, which rules all the other faculties and surpasses liberty itself, not being able to have its organ in the individual, would remain for man a notion without […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Eighth Study

March 10, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[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 […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Program

February 23, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
PROUDHON LIBRARY home page Justice in the Revolution and in the Church (in progress): Popular Philosophy: Program First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice Second Study: Persons Third Study: Goods Fourth Study: The State Fifth Study: Education Sixth Study: Labor Seventh Study: Ideas Eighth Study: Conscience and Freedom Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence Tenth Study: Love and Marriage Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (contined) Twelfth Study: Moral Sanction JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH. BY PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON [1] _________ Volume I POPULAR PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM I. — The coming of the people to philosophy. At the beginning of […]
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Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Seventh Study: Ideas, Ch. I

July 15, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
[This translation is based on a working text, compiled from bit and pieces by me, Jesse Cohn and at least one translation engine. I have gone back to the original text to double-check everything, and all the final choices are my responsibility. Some of the pretty parts are definitely all Jesse.] ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — No. 7. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE LES IDÉES ❧ A son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. Monseigneur, Jésus répond aux pharisiens qui l’interrogent sur la femme adultère : « Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péché lui […]
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Proudhon, “LVIII. — System of public reason, or social system” (Justice)

November 28, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
LVIII. — Système de la raison publique, ou système social. Que de fois ne me suis-je pas entendu adresser ce compliment que la critique jalouse se hâterait, pour l’honneur du siècle, de retirer, si elle en comprenait la portée : Vous êtes un admirable destructeur; mais vous ne construisez rien. Vous jetez les gens à la rue, et vous ne leur offrez pas le moindre abri. Que mettez-vous à la place de la religion? Que mettez-vous à la place du gouvernement? Que mettez-vous à la place de la propriété? On me dit à présent: Que mettez-vous à la place de […]
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“I am a sans-culotte” (excerpt from Justice, Study on Moral Sanction)

March 12, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
  JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH TWELFTH STUDY ON MORAL SANCTION ____ FRAGMENTS Monsignor, I have come here to the end of this long labor. Accused as it has been for seventy years, the Revolution finally becomes, through my mouth and in my person, the accuser. It proves to you today—to all of you, priests, mystics, worshipers of the ideal, apostles of natural religion, conservators and restorers of the principle of authority, privileged of capital and industry, partisans of divine right in property and the State, representatives of all the fictions of the exhausted age—that you do […]
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Catechism of Marriage

June 22, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur
CATECHISM OF MARRIAGE [from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, New Edition, Vol. IV] Question. — What is the conjugal couple? Answer. — Every power of nature, every faculty of life, every affection of the soul, every category of the intelligence, needs an organ, in order to manifest itself and act. The sentiment of Justice can be no exception to that law. But Justice, which rules all the other faculties and surpasses liberty itself, not being able to have its organ in the individual, would remain for man a notion without efficacy, and society would be impossible, if […]