Émile Saisset

Émile Saisset
Born(1814-09-16)16 September 1814
Montpellier
Died27 December 1863(1863-12-27) (aged 49)
NationalityFrench
Occupationphilosopher

Émile Edmond Saisset (16 September 1814 – 27 December 1863) was a French philosopher.[1]

Life

Émile Edmond Saisset was born at Montpellier. He studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and carried on the eclectic tradition of his master along with Ravaisson and Jules Simon. In 1842 he was professor of philosophy at Caen, at the École Normale in Paris.[2] He later moved on to the College de France in 1843. He became a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques at the Sorbonne in 1862.[3] Saisset, known as "fashionable psychologist",[4] was associated with the Eclectic school of Victor Cousin.[1]

Saisset's chief works are a monograph on Aenesidemus the Sceptic (1840); Le Scepticisme: Ænésidème, Pascal, Kant (1845); a translation of Spinoza (1843); Précurseurs et disciples de Descartes (1862); Discours de la philosophie de Leibniz (1857) (a work which had great influence on the progress of thought in France); Essai de philosophie religieuse (1859); Critique et histoire de la philosophie (1865).[2]

His untimely death in 1863, "a year after his appointment to the Sorbonne, surely prevented his literary output from being more formidable."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Schwartz, Daniel B. (26 Feb 2012). The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-400-84226-1. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saisset, Émile Edmond". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 53.
  3. ^ a b Manns, James W. (1 Jan 1994). Reid and his French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. p. 176. ISBN 978-9-004-24698-0. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  4. ^ Pickering, Mary (14 September 2009). Auguste Comte: Volume 2: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-521-51325-8. Retrieved 20 March 2022.


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