![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Victor Cousin | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | 28 November 1792 Paris, France |
Died | 14 January 1867 Cannes, France | (aged 74)
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Eclectic spiritualism[1] |
Main interests | Ontology Epistemology |
Notable ideas | The two principles of reason, cause and substance, enable humans to pass from psychology, or the science of knowledge, to ontology or 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.