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PHILOSOPHER

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 65,548 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Émile Boutroux is the 684th most popular philosopher (up from 712th in 2019), the 2,221st most popular biography from France (up from 2,273rd in 2019) and the 89th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Émile Boutroux ranks 684 out of 1,081Before him are Numenius of Apamea, Kitaro Nishida, William Heard Kilpatrick, Alexius Meinong, Antonio Rosmini, and Alvin Plantinga. After him are Jaakko Hintikka, Olaf Stapledon, Jean-Marie Guyau, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Michael Walzer, and Theophan Prokopovich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Émile Boutroux ranks 35Before him are Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Isidor Straus, Fernand Cormon, Tristan Corbière, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Jacint Verdaguer. After him are Ödön Lechner, Walter Crane, William, Prince of Wied, Eugène Grasset, Jan Czerski, and Elihu Root. Among people deceased in 1921, Émile Boutroux ranks 49Before him are Emilia Pardo Bazán, Hermann Paul, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Max Dvořák, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, and Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. After him are Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Annie Edson Taylor, Juhani Aho, Otto von Gierke, Adolf von Hildebrand, and Jean-Paul Laurens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Boutroux ranks 2,221 out of 6,011Before him are Léon Cogniet (1794), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Constance, Duchess of Brittany (1161), Anselme Payen (1795), Bernard of Menthon (923), and Marc Augé (1935). After him are Philippe Sollers (1936), Matthias of Arras (1290), Thomas Bérard (1300), Ginette Neveu (1919), Tino Rossi (1907), and Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Émile Boutroux ranks 89Before him are Gersonides (1288), Pierre Hadot (1922), Louis Couturat (1868), Amalric of Bena (1150), Gilbert de la Porrée (1070), and Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717). After him are Jean-Marie Guyau (1854), Fulbert of Chartres (960), Peter John Olivi (1248), Julien Benda (1867), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), and Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903).