Victor Cousin
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1792-11-28
- Died
- 1867-01-15
- Works
- 98
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,233x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,034x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 28 November 1792
- Died
- 15 January 1867
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Wikidata facts
Article
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.
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