Study of cultural history concerning the French Ideology

“意识形态”一词是法国大革命时期德·特蕾西（Destutt de Tracy）发明的，被哲学家定义为追踪人类思想产生的一门科学。我们的研究是为了将“意识形态者”（比如特蕾西的朋友乔治·卡巴尼斯）的活动具体地置于庞大但有时看不见的历史洪流中：我们澄清了当代政治、医学和伦理领域相互关联的模糊背景。卡巴尼晚年的斯多葛派信仰，神秘的皈依被视为短暂的意识形态问题，与他中年的政治和医学哲学著作有关。在革命时代，他曾同意实行断头台刑罚，因为根据医学的敏感性观点——和斯多葛派的逻辑一样，所有的犯人在这台机器里可能都感觉不到痛苦。我们在1998年8月在加拿大拉瓦尔大学举行的ASPLF会议上讨论了这一主题。

The term "ideology" was invented by Destutt de Tracy in the epoch of French Revolution, and defined by the philosopher as a science to trace the generation of human ideas. Our study has been made for the purpose of situating concretely the activities of "ideologues " (Tracy's friends, Georges Cabanis, for example) in the large but sometimes invisible stream of history : we have clarified the obscure context in which contemporary political, medical and ethical realms were related to each other. The Stoic belief of Cabani's old age, enigmatic conversion taken as an issue of ephemeral ideology, had something to do with the political and medico-philosophical works of his middle age. In the revolutionary era, he had agreed to the implementation of guillotine penalty, by reason that according to the medical view of sensitivity--same as the Stoic logic, all the convicts might feel no pain in this machine. We treated this theme in the conference of ASPLF held at Laval University (Canada), in august, 1998.