Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin | |
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Portrait by Gustave Le Gray | |
| Born | 28 November 1792 Paris, France |
| Died | 14 January 1867 (aged 74) Cannes, France |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | École Normale |
| Academic advisors | Pierre Laromiguière Pierre Paul Royer-Collard |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Late modern philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Eclectic spiritualism |
| Institutions | University of Paris École Normale |
| Notable students | Jean Philibert Damiron, Paul Janet, Théodore Jouffroy, Félix Ravaisson, Jules Simon |
| Main interests | Ontology, epistemology |
| Notable ideas | The two principles of reason (cause and substance) as a passage from psychology (the science of knowledge) to ontology (the science of being) |
Victor Cousin (/kuːˈzæn/; 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. As the administrator of public instruction for over a decade, Cousin also had an important influence on French educational policy.