FARGES, ALBERT. - Neo-Scholastic Sulpician philosopher, b. in 1848 at Beaulieu, d. on 9 June 1926. He taught in the Seminaries of Bruges and of Nantes, then passed to the direction of the Seminary of St. Sulpice and of the Catholic Institute of Paris, and finally of the Seminary of the Catholic Institute of Angers.
He devoted himself to the restoration of Thomism and to the refutation of opposing theories, especially with the series Etudes philosophiques pour vulgariser les théories d'Aristote et de St. Thomas et leur accord avec les sciences: I. Théorie fondamentale de l'acte et la puissance (Paris 1890); II. Matière et forme (ibid. 1890); III. La vie et l'évolution des espèces (ibid. 1890); IV. Le cerveau, l'âme et ses facultés (ibid. 1890); V. L'objectivité de la perception des sens externes (ibid. 1885); VI. L'idée du continu (ibid. 1892); VII. L'idée de Dieu (ibid. 1894); VIII. La liberté et le devoir (ibid. 1902); IX. La crise de la certitude (ibid. 1907); a work crowned by the Académie française and by Leo XIII. Together with D. Barbedette, also a Sulpician, he published in French and in Latin the compendium Philosophia scholastica, which had very numerous editions. F. moreover contributed many articles to the Annales de la philosophie chrétienne, Revue de philosophie, Revue thomistique, and occupied himself with the philosophy of Descartes and of Bergson. On mystical facts he published: Les phénomènes mystiques, distingués de leurs contrefaçons humaines et diaboliques, Paris 1921.