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Émile Boutroux

1845 - 1921

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Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (French: [butʁu]; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was an eminent 19th-century French philosopher of science and religion, and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Boutroux has received more than 69,920 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Émile Boutroux is the 723rd most popular philosopher (down from 684th in 2019), the 2,341st most popular biography from France (down from 2,214th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Émile Boutroux ranks 723 out of 1,267. Before him are Lie Yukou, Gilbert Ryle, David the Invincible, John Cantius, Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, and Anton Wilhelm Amo. After him are Richard of Saint Victor, Thomas Hill Green, Robert Filmer, Byung-Chul Han, Vazgen I, and Alexius Meinong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Émile Boutroux ranks 35. Before him are Leopold Auer, Princess Sophie of Saxony, Tristan Corbière, Fernand Cormon, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover. After him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Ödön Lechner, Harriet Backer, Eugène Grasset, Émile Baudot, and Elihu Root. Among people deceased in 1921, Émile Boutroux ranks 56. Before him are Juhani Aho, Max Dvořák, Lady Randolph Churchill, Adolf von Hildebrand, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, and Said Halim Pasha. After him are Pauline von Metternich, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Otto von Gierke, Agenor Maria Gołuchowski, Joel Asaph Allen, and Christina Nilsson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Boutroux ranks 2,341 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Leroux (1797), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Sophie de Condorcet (1764), Dominique Venner (1935), Bayezid Osman (1924), and René-Louis Baire (1874). After him are Henri Labrouste (1801), Patricia Kaas (1966), Gabriel Hanot (1889), Michel Gondry (1963), Jacques Villon (1875), and Philippe Sollers (1936).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Émile Boutroux ranks 93. Before him are Pierre Hadot (1922), Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), Amalric of Bena (1150), Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717), Julien Benda (1867), and Fulbert of Chartres (960). After him are Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), Charles Renouvier (1815), and Peter John Olivi (1248).

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