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Victor cousin

Victor Cousin (born November 28, 1792 in Paris , † January 14, 1867 in Cannes ) was a French philosopher and cultural theorist.

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He attended the Lycée Charlemagne from 1802 to 1810 , where he proved to be literary. He later studied philosophy with Pierre Laromiguière . He was also influenced by Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763-1845).

In 1815, Cousin devoted himself to German studies and studied the works of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi . In 1817 he met Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Heidelberg , with whom he became friends. In 1818 he visited Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling in Munich .

In the 1820s, Cousin was the editor of the works of Proclus and Descartes .

Victor Cousin is named alongside Théophile Gautier as one of those who could have coined the motto l'art pour l'art .

It is a cousin's historic achievement to have made Hegel's philosophy accessible to a larger audience for the first time in France.

Besides Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau and Karl von Prantl , Cousin was one of the founders of the resumption of the universal dispute, which was intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries . Cousin's pupil was the Greek philosopher Petros Brailas-Armenis .

Since 1832 he was a foreign member of the Prussian and since 1833 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1835 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1851 he was accepted into the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1855 into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Heinrich Heine criticized cousins eclecticism .

Works

  • About French and German philosophy. In addition to an evaluative preface by the Geiheimrat von Schelling, JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1834 ( Google Books )
  • Ouvrages inédits d'Abaelard. Paris 1836
  • Introduction à l'histoire de la philosophie. 4th edition Paris 1861 (lectures at the Sorbonne 1820–1827)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alain de Libera: The Universal Dispute - From Plato to the end of the Middle Ages . Edited by Alain de Libera, transl. v. Konrad Honsel (title of the original French edition: La querell des universaux / 1996). Munich, 2005. pp. 15-16.
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wöhler: Texts on the universal dispute - From the end of antiquity to early scholasticism (Volume 1). Edited by Hans-Ulrich Wöhler. Berlin, 1992. pp. VII-XI.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Victor cousin. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 10, 2015 (with short biography).
  4. ↑ Member entry by Victor Cousin (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 60.
  7. ^ Heinrich Heine: Works and letters in ten volumes . Volume 5, Berlin and Weimar, 152–164
predecessor Office successor
Abel-François Villemain Minister of Education of France
March 1, 1840 - October 29, 1840 		Abel-François Villemain
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and cultural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1867
Place of death Cannes