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Balmes, Jaime, 1810-1848

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Jaime (or Jaume) Balmes Urpía (August 28, 1810—July 9, 1848), Spanish ecclesiastic, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher, was born and died at Vic in Catalonia.

Having attacked the regent Espartero and been exiled he founded and edited on his return the El Pensamiento de la Nación, a Catholic and conservative weekly; but his fame rests principally on El Protestantismo comparado con el Catolicismo en sus relaciones con la Civilisación Europea (3 vols., 1842—1844, 6th edition, 1879; Eng. trans. London, 1849), an able defence of Catholicism on the ground that it represents the spirit of obedience or order, as opposed to Protestantism, the spirit of revolt or anarchy.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

The best of his philosophical works, which are clear expositions of the scholastic system of thought, are the Filosofia Fondamental (4 vols., 1846, Eng. trans. by H. F. Brownson, 2 vols. New York, 1856), and the Curso de Filosofia Elemental (4 vols., 1847), which he translated into Latin for use in seminaries.

References

A. de Blanche-Raffin, Jacques Balmes, sa vie et ses ouvrages (Paris, 1849)
E. Bullon Fernandez, Jaime Balmis y sus oberas (Madrid, 1903)
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Filosofia Fundamental I-IV, Volumen 2
Filosofia Fundamental, Volumen III
Filosofia fundamental

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