Dominique Parodi

Dominique Parodi (May 2, 1870 – November 12, 1955) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.

Dominique Parodi was born in Genoa. He was the son of Margarita (née Vitale) and Dominique-Alexandre Parodi; his father was a poet and dramatist of Graeco-Italian background. A member of the group around Émile Durkheim, he was a contributor to their journal, L'Année Sociologique. Between 1919 and 1934 he was General Inspector of Public Instruction. He succeeded Xavier Léon as editor of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, editing it from 1935 to 1955.

Works Traditionalisme et démocratie, 1909 Le problème moral et la pensée contemporaine, 1910 La philosophie contemporaine en France; essai de classification des doctrines, 1919 La Siris by George Berkeley, 1920 (translation of the book with Georges Beaulavon) 'De l'explication dans les sciences par E. Meyerson', Revue de métaphysique et de morale 31 (1924), pp. 585–97 Les bases psychologiques de la vie morale, 1928 Du positivisme à l'idéalisme: études critiques, 1930 En quête d'une philosophie; essais de philosophie première, 1935 Le problème politique et la démocratie, 1945