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Joseph Joubert

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II

Name: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II
Author: Joseph Joubert

Complete Notebooks · French with an independent English translation.

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YEAR 1814 · Entry 6962

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French

p. 6361

[…] mars.

Comme il y a la langue du cœur et la langue de l’âme, il y a aussi […] langue de l’intelligence. Les philosophes grecs (Platon et Aristote) […]nt possédée éminemment.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II: YEAR 1814

p. 6362

March […].

Just as there is the language of the heart and the language of the soul, there is also [the] language of intelligence. The Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle) [possessed it] eminently.

T119.The three languages remain distinct, with also, both named philosophers and the degree eminently. [The] provisionally interprets la at a suspected missing slot whose very presence and extent are uncertain. [Possessed it] contextually interprets l’ont before intact possédée from the damaged […]nt; the broader English bracket includes the intact participial meaning because the inferred auxiliary and object have no natural single-word counterpart in simple-past English. Neither French opening is restored.

T432.The day consists of disconnected vertical/curved remnants; no complete numeral is certified. The three language relations and named parenthesis remain. Before langue the intact word is displaced to the right of the ordinary continuation column; a suspected loss is marked, but its presence and extent are uncertain and no la is recovered. This differs from a directly interrupted word. Before nt, the clipped components do not establish l’o or another complete opening. The feminine possédée remains. Independent native comparison agrees that the suspected slot before langue has uncertain presence and extent and that the first day is not certifiable.

About This Reading Edition

Joubert’s notebooks return to the work of thinking and writing, the demands of friendship, and questions of faith, beauty and conduct. This edition pairs the French with a new English translation, preserving the order of the chosen source and the unfinished character of its fragments. Dates and source references allow readers to follow a thought through time or return to its printed context.

Historical Text and Translation

The French text follows André Beaunier’s 1938 edition of Les Carnets de Joseph Joubert, published by Gallimard from Joubert’s autograph manuscripts. Volume II continues the notebooks and includes seventy undated pieces. French and English are aligned paragraph by paragraph, retaining the source order, printed dates and page references so readers can return to the facsimile.

About Diotimos Editions

Diotimos Editions prepared this new English translation directly from the French, preserving Joubert’s distinctions, recurring images, ambiguities and unfinished thoughts. Translator’s notes clarify wording, references and uncertain readings: Essential keeps notes that help explain a passage, while All includes technical detail. Annotations from the 1938 source edition remain distinct from the new translator’s notes.

Rights

The linked facsimile records identify the French source as public domain in the United States. The new English translation and editorial notes are © 2026 Diotimos, with source annotations and new editorial contributions credited separately. This edition pairs the complete French notebooks with an independent English translation, preserving the distinction between Joubert’s text and its accompanying notes.