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Victor Cousin
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Victor Cousin was a French philosopher, politician, translator, and university teacher. Born in Paris in 1792, he was educated at Lycée Charlemagne and studied under Pierre Laromiguière and Pierre Paul Royer-Collard. His field of work was the history of philosophy, and he was influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Blaise Pascal, and John Locke. He served as a teacher at the University of Paris and wrote in French.
Cousin was 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 received the Commander of the Legion of Honour and the Concours général, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 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 died in Cannes in 1867 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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Victor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Cannes
- Occupation
- historian
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
- Field of work
- history of philosophy
- Image
- Victor Cousin by Gustave Le Gray, late 1850s-crop.jpg
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- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Commons category
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- Victor Cousin
- name in native language
- Victor Cousin
- student
- Honoré de Balzac
- writing language
- French
- influenced by
- John Locke
- date of birth
- 1792-11-28
- date of death
- 1867-01-15
- P8168
- Eckert
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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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