PHILOSOPHER

Victor Cousin

1792 - 1867

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Victor Cousin (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Cousin has received more than 155,676 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Victor Cousin is the 460th most popular philosopher (up from 507th in 2019), the 1,370th most popular biography from France (up from 1,582nd in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Victor Cousin ranks 460 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Natorp, Nelson Goodman, Michel Serres, Philodemus, Martha Nussbaum, and Priscian. After him are Vittorino da Feltre, Michel de Certeau, Zhiyi, Ivan Ilyin, Daniel Dennett, and Vincent of Beauvais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Victor Cousin ranks 15. Before him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Alexander Ypsilantis, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William, Duke of Nassau, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, and James Mayer de Rothschild. After him are Johann Peter Eckermann, Johan August Arfwedson, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Joseph Mohr, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and Matteo Carcassi. Among people deceased in 1867, Victor Cousin ranks 12. Before him are Franz Bopp, Théodore Rousseau, Otto of Greece, Sakamoto Ryōma, Jean-Victor Poncelet, and Maria Theresa of Austria. After him are Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Princess Sophie of Saxony, Peter von Cornelius, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and Archduchess Mathilda of Austria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Cousin ranks 1,370 out of 6,770. Before him are Walter Sans Avoir (1050), Marie Anne de Bourbon (1666), Livilla (-13), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Roger Caillois (1913), and Pierre Mauroy (1928). After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Léo Taxil (1854), Michel Adanson (1727), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Victor Cousin ranks 64. Before him are Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Petrus Ramus (1515), Maine de Biran (1766), and Michel Serres (1930). After him are Michel de Certeau (1925), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Pierre Duhem (1861), Guillaume Budé (1467), and Louis Couturat (1868).

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