Martial Gueroult

Martial Gueroult (* December 15, 1891 in Le Havre; † August 13, 1976 in Paris) was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and university teachers.

After working at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Clermont- Ferrand Martial Gueroult took over in 1945 the chair of philosophy at the University of Paris Sorbonne, succeeding Léon Brunschvicg. In 1951 he was appointed professor at the Collège de France, where he took over the chair of Étienne Gilson, whose teaching field he renamed " Histoire et systèmes philosophiques of technology ." 1957 Gueroult was appointed a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

Gueroult has emerged primarily as a specialist in the history of philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has published numerous studies on thinkers such as René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Spinoza and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. His theory of the history of philosophy he has presented in the unfinished work entitled Dianoématique.

Works

  • L'evolution et la structure de la doctrine de la science chez spruce, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1930
  • Descartes selon l' Ordre des raisons, Aubier - Montaigne, Paris 1968
  • Spinoza, Olms, Hildesheim 1968-1974
  • Etudes sur Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche et Leibniz, Olms, Hildesheim 1970
  • Dianoématique, Aubier, Paris 1979-1988
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