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Victor Cousin
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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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,973x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- 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 15,971x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,264x
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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
Philosophie sensualiste au dix-huitième siècle
Oeuvres de Victor Cousin - T. 1er,: Introduction a l'histoire de la philosophie;: Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie;: Cours de philosophie sur le fondement des idees absolues du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien;: De la métaphysique d'Aristote.
Oeuvres de Victor Cousin - T. 2e,: Cours d'histoire de la philosophie morale;: Fragments philosophiques.
Oeuvres de Victor Cousin - T. 3e,: De l'instruction publique en Allemagne, en Prusse et en Hollande;: Nouvelles considérations sur les rapports du phisique et du moral de l'homme.
Cours d'histoire de la philosophie moderne pendant les années 1816 et 1817
Fragments philosophiques pour faire suite aux cours de l'histoire de la philosophie - T. I,: Philosophie ancienne /
Fragments de philosophie contemporaine
Du vrai du beau et du bien
Du vrai du beau et du bien
Philosophie de Kant
Philosophie de Kant
Fragments philosophiques
Fragments philosophiques
Oeuvres de Victor Cousin - T. 4e. Première partie,: Fragments littéraires. introduction générale a l'histoire de la philosophie...
Fragments et souvenirs
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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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