Victor Cousin

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French philosopher

Victor Cousin 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. Wikipedia

Born: November 28, 1792, Paris, France

Died: January 14, 1867 (age 74 years), Cannes, France

Books: The Philosophy of the Beautiful ... Translated with Notes and an Introduction by Jesse Cato Daniel, Secret History of the French Court Under Richelieu and Mazarin, and Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia ... Translated by Sarah Austin

Education: Charlemagne High School (1802–1810) and École normale supérieure

Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and more

Nationality: French