Talk:Maine de Biran

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This article seems weird? I would recommend downgrading it. It is lacking in material and its current material isn't very well written. Eh, what can you expect on a page about an obscure 18th century French philosopher.

It contradicts itself fairly badly in the first section:

The first paragraph says: "He entered politics and was part of the Conseil des Cinq Cents."

The next paragraph then goes on to mention "Having been excluded from the Council of the Five Hundred..."

The discussion of de Biran's philosophy is hard to read, as well. It also mischaracterizes de Biran as an esoteric, historical philsopher. At the very least he inspired Merlau-Ponty (one of the pillar thinkers of phenomenology) and is one of the first philosophers of mind to break with Cartesianism. (As casually mentioned in the side box, where his tagline "volo ergo sum" is mentioned, but not explained.)

My reference is Giovanna Colombetti's "The Feeling Body" (MIT Press), pages 7-11, section 1.3 :"Enter the Lived Body: From Maine de Biran’s Experience of Effort to Henry’s “Interior Quivering”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.127.197.107 (talk) 05:02, 1 October 2015 (UTC)