Elme Marie Caro
Elme Marie Caro | |
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| Born | 4 March 1826 |
| Died | 13 July 1887 (aged 61) |
| Occupation | professor |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Collège Stanislas de Paris |
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Elme Marie Caro (4 March 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – 13 July 1887, Paris) was a French philosopher.
Life[]
His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an education at the Stanislas College and the École Normale, where he graduated in 1848. After being professor of philosophy at several provincial universities, he received the degree of doctor, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale.[1]
In 1861 he became inspector of the , in 1864 professor of philosophy to the Faculty of Letters, and in 1874 a member of the Académie française. He married , the author of Le Péché de Madeleine and other well-known novels.[1]
In his philosophy, he was mainly concerned to defend Christianity against modern Positivism. The philosophy of Victor Cousin influenced him strongly, but his strength lay in exposition and criticism rather than in original thought.[1]
He wrote important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes.[1]
Selected publications[]
- Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle (1852–1854)
- Études morales sur le temps présent (1855)
- L'Idée de Dieu (1864)
- Le matérialisme et la science (1867)
- Jours d'épreuve (1872)
- Le Pessimisme au XIXe siècle (1878)
- La Philosophie de Goethe (2nd ed., 1880)
- La fin du dix-huitième siècle (1881)[2]
- M. Littré et le positivisme (1883)
- George Sand (1887)
- Mélanges et portraits (1888)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Review of Madame de Staël by Abel Stevens and La fin du dix-huitième siècle par E. Caro". The Quarterly Review. 152: 1–49. July 1881.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caro, Elme Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 379.
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- 1826 births
- 1887 deaths
- People from Poitiers
- Members of the Académie Française
- French philosophers
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni
- French male non-fiction writers