LAROMIGUIRE, PIERRE

born Nov. 3, 1756, Livignac, Fr. died Aug. 12, 1837, Paris French philosopher who became famous for his thesis on the rights of property in connection with taxation, which he held to be arbitrary and therefore illegal. For the thesis he was censured by the French Parlement. After the French Revolution he was appointed professor of logic at the cole Normale and spent the rest of his life in various teaching posts. He became a member of the Acadmie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1833. Although he was essentially a follower of tienne Bonnot de Condillac, who held that the source of all knowledge is sense perception, he took issue with several points of Condillac's doctrine, maintaining that some functions of the mind originate from within the mind itself. His major works include Projet d'lments de mtaphysique (1793; Elements of Metaphysics), Les Paradoxes de Condillac (1805; The Paradoxes of Condillac), and Leons de philosophie (181518; Lessons on Philosophy), an extremely popular work in his day. He also edited the works of Condillac (1795).