Victor Brochard

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Victor Brochard (born June 29, 1848 in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle , Département Nord , † November 25, 1907 in Paris ) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy .

After attending the Lycée in Lille , he began his studies in 1868 at the École normal supérieure . In 1872 he was appointed agregé de philosophie and philosophy teacher at the Lycée von Pau , 1875 at the Lycée von Douai , 1876 at the Lycée von Nancy , 1879 at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris (1879).

In 1879 he received his doctorate with a Latin dissertation De assensione stoïci quid senserunt ( What the Stoics Thought About Consent ) and a French dissertation De l ' Erreur .

In 1884 Brochard took part in the competition for the Prix Victor Cousin , which was advertised for a treatise on ancient skepticism . Brochard published his treatise on the Greek skeptics in 1887 under the title Les Skeptiques grecs . It was welcomed by Friedrich Nietzsche and used intensively.

Brochard was maître de conférences at the École normal supérieure and professor of the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne . In 1900 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

Brochard has worked in the field of modern philosophy in particular on moral philosophy as well as in the field of ancient philosophy on Stoa, Epicurus , ancient skepticism and Plato .

Fonts (selection)

  • De la Responsabilité morale . Pau, 1874.
  • De l'Universalité des notions morales . Pau, Ribaut, 1876.
  • De l'Erreur . Thèse française pour le doctorat, Faculté des lettres de Paris, Berger-Levrault, Paris 1879.
  • De assensione Stoici quid senserint . Thèse latine pour le doctorat, Berger-Levrault, Parisiis 1879.
  • Les skeptiques grecs . Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1887, reprinted by the Librairie générale française, Paris 2002.
  • Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne , recueillies et précédées d'une introduction par Victor Delbos, F. Alcan, Paris 1912.
  • Brochard has also published two text editions on Descartes ( Discours de la Méthode and Première Méditation , with explanations of Cartesian thought (1881); Principes de la philosophie de Descartes , with an introduction, a critical analysis and historical and philosophical remarks (1886)).
  • He also contributed to various articles on the Revue philosophique ( La croyance (July 1884); La loi de similarité dans l'association des idées (March 1880); La morale ancienne et la morale moderne (1901); La morale éclectique (1902)) .
  • For the Année philosophique he published overview articles on Greek philosophy from 1900 ( Les mythes dans la philosophie de Platon (1900); L'œuvre de Socrate (1901); Les Lois de Platon et la théorie des idées (1902); La morale d 'Épicure (1903); La morale de Platon (1905); Sur le Banquet de Platon (1906); La théorie platonicienne de la participation d'après le Parménide et le Sophiste (1907)).

literature

  • François Pillon: Victor Brochard, Notice nécrologique. In: Année philosophique XVIII, 1907, 285–286, (online) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Urs Sommer : Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche , in: Keith Ansell Pearson (Ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche. Oxford UP, Oxford 2006, pp. 250-269.
personal data
SURNAME Brochard, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Quesnoy-sur-Deûle ( North )
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1907
Place of death Paris