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Victor Cousin

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French philosopher (1792–1867)

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Victor Cousin was a French philosopher, politician, translator, and university teacher who worked in the history of philosophy. He was born in Paris and educated at Lycée Charlemagne. Cousin served as a member of the Académie Française, the Société héliographique, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He was employed by the University of Paris and wrote in French.

His notable works include *Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good*, *Philosophical Miscellanies*, *Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal*, *Du vrai, du beau et du bien*, and *Philosophical essays*. He was influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Blaise Pascal, and John Locke. Among his students were Étienne Vacherot, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, and Honoré de Balzac.

Cousin received the Commander of the Legion of Honour, the Concours général, and a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Cannes and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Works
98

Top works

  • Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good
  • Philosophical Miscellanies
  • Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
  • Du vrai, du beau et du bien
  • Philosophical essays

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sydney
Active from
1792
Active to
1867

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • Il faut de la religion pour la religion, de la morale pour la morale, comme de l'art pour l'art...le beau ne peut être la voie ni de l'utile, ni du bien, ni du saint; il ne conduit qu'à lui-même.
  • When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East-above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
  • India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.

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Key facts

Born
28 November 1792, Paris, France
Died
14 January 1867 (1867-01-14) (aged 74), Cannes , France
Alma mater
École Normale
Academic advisors
Pierre Laromiguière , Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
Era
Late modern philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy , Eclectic spiritualism
Institutions
University of Paris , École Normale
Notable students
Jean Philibert Damiron , Paul Janet , Théodore Jouffroy , Félix Ravaisson , Jules Simon
Main interests
Metaphysics , epistemology , ethics, history of philosophy , philosophy of history
Notable ideas
The two principles of reason ( cause and substance ) as a passage from psychology (the science of knowledge) to ontology (the science of being)

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Victor Cousin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Victor Cousin (/kuːˈzæn/; French: [kuzɛ̃]; 28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. As the administrator of public instruction for over a decade, Cousin also had an important influence on French educational policy.

Biography

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