Victor Delbos
Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Victor Delbos | |
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| Born | Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos September 26, 1862 Figeac, France |
| Died | June 16, 1916 (aged 53) Paris, France |
| Relatives | Claire Delbos (daughter) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Academic advisors | Léon Ollé-Laprune |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Doctoral students | Étienne Gilson[1] |
Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died in July 1916 as a result of an infectious myocarditis brought on by pleurisy. Maurice Blondel, a close friend, wrote an obituary account of Delbos and saw various posthumous publications through the press.[2]
He wrote on Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche and Kant. A series of lectures on post-Kantian philosophy, which Delbos viewed as shaped by contingent psychological and social factors rather than through the unfolding of some internal logic, were published posthumously and later (1942) collected in a single volume.[3]
Delbos was the father of the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. In turn, he was the father-in-law of Olivier Messiaen.
Works
- Le problème moral dans la philosophie de Spinoza et dans l'histoire du spinozisme, Paris: Alcan, 1893
- La Philosophie pratique de Kant, 1905
- Le spinozisme : cours professé à la Sorbonne en 1912-1913, 1916
- La philosophie française, 1919
- Étude de la philosophie de Malebranche, 1924
- De Kant aux postkantiens, 1942
References
- Séances et Travaux de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques: Compte Rendu. A. Picard et Fils. 1913. p. 117. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
- Oliva Blanchette, Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life, 2010, p.30-76
- Cristina Chimisso, Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s, 2008, p.48