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Douzième étude — De la sanction morale — français parallèle

June 14, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

DOUZIÈME ÉTUDE DE LA SANCTION MORALE FRAGMENTS ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N° 12. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE. DOUZIÈME ÉTUDE. DE LA SANCTION MORALE. FRAGMENTS. Monseigneur, Me voici parvenu à la fin de ce long travail. D’accusée qu’elle est depuis soixante et dix ans, la Révolution devient enfin, par ma bouche et dans ma personne, accusatrice : elle vous prouve aujourd’hui, à vous tous, prêtres, mystiques, fondateurs et réformateurs de cultes, catholiques et réformés, philosophes de l’absolu, adorateurs de l’idéal, apôtres de la religion naturelle, conservateurs et restaurateurs du principe d’autorité, privilégiés du capital et […]

“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 […]

Proudhon on the “right to punish”

October 3, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is another section from the study on moral sanction, the concluding section of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] II. — Does society have the right to punish? The philosophers struggle, and the problem is still unresolved. While the Church invokes divine right, the mandate received by it to cure souls, and, if necessary, to execute the bodies of those who disdain the law, the so-called rationalists allege, some legitimate defense, others the talion or vengeance, these the necessity of the example, those, who we could call semi-theologians, the mental hygiene and good of the culprits. Mr. […]

Proudhon, Justice: Twelfth Study

October 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The final study in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church deals with the question of “moral sanction.” This section explains the identity, within Proudhon’s thought of the law, the legislator, and the sanction of the law, understood both as the guarantee of its authority (a notion we obviously have to use carefully in this context) and as the rewards or punishments associated with compliance or non-compliance. 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 […]