PHILOSOPHER

Jean Buridan

1295 - 1361

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Jean Buridan (French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French philosopher. Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle. Buridan sowed the seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Buridan has received more than 265,691 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Jean Buridan is the 165th most popular philosopher (up from 171st in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from France (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Buridan is most famous for his theory on the will. He believed that the will is free and can choose its own course of action.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Buridan ranks 165 out of 1,267. Before him are John Wycliffe, Hippias, Chrysippus, Sextus Empiricus, Kabir, and Han Fei. After him are Jean Baudrillard, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Cesare Beccaria, Athanasius Kircher, and Al-Ash'ari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1295, Jean Buridan ranks 2. Before him is Saint Roch. After him are Isabella of France, Nicephorus Gregoras, Henry Suso, Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, and Nicholas Orsini. Among people deceased in 1361, Jean Buridan ranks 1. After him are Philippe de Vitry, Johannes Tauler, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, María de Padilla, Blanche of Bourbon, An-Nasir Hasan, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Giovanni Dolfin, and Ingeborg of Norway.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Buridan ranks 363 out of 6,770. Before him are Denis Papin (1647), Édouard Daladier (1884), Adolphe Thiers (1797), Jean Renoir (1894), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), and Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752). After him are Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), Pope Nicholas II (990), Philip the Bold (1342), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Nicolas Appert (1749).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Buridan ranks 15. Before him are Jean Bodin (1530), Roland Barthes (1915), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Paul Ricœur (1913), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709).

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