Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin ( born November 28, 1792 in Paris, † January 14, 1867 in Cannes) was a French philosopher and cultural theorist.

He attended from 1802 to 1810, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he proved to be literarily gifted. Later, he studied philosophy at Pierre Laromiguière. He was also influenced by Pierre Paul Royer - Collard ( 1763-1845 ).

In 1815, devoted cousin in German and studied the works of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. In 1817, he met in Heidelberg, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, with whom he became friends. In 1818 he visited Munich in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.

In the 1820s cousin was editor of the works of Proclus and Descartes.

Victor Cousin, in addition to Théophile Gautier as one of those mentioned, which could have the motto of l' art pour l'art coined.

It is considered cousins ​​historic achievement to have made the philosophy of Hegel in France for the first time to a wider audience.

In addition cousin was next to Jean -Barthélemy Hauréau and Karl von Prantl one of the founders of the intensified in the 19th and 20th centuries resumption of universals. A pupil of Cousin was the Greek philosopher Petros Braila - Armenis.

Heinrich Heine criticized Cousins ​​eclecticism.

Works

• About French and German Philosophe. In addition to a preface of beurtheilenden Geiheimrates of Schelling, JG Cotta'sche bookstore, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1834 (Google Books)
• Ouvrages inédits d' Abelard. Paris, 1836
• Introduction à l' histoire de la philosophie, Paris 4th ed 1861 ( lectures at the Sorbonne from 1820 to 1827 )