FARGES, Albert. - Neoscholastic Sulpician philosopher, b. in 1848 at Beaulieu, d. 9 June 1926. He taught in the Seminaries of Bruges and Nantes, then became director of the Seminary of Saint-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 refuting opposing theories, especially through 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).
The work was awarded prizes by the Académie française and by Leo XIII. Together with D. Barbedette, also a Sulpician, he published in French and Latin the compendium *Philosophie scholastique*, which went through numerous editions. Farges also contributed many articles to the *Annales de la philosophie chrétienne*, *Revue de philosophie*, *Revue thomiste*, and dealt with the philosophy of Cartesius and Bergson. On mystical phenomena he published: *Les phénomènes mystiques, distingués de leurs contrefaçons humaines et diaboliques* (Paris 1921).
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