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Victor Delbos
Born
Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos

(1862-09-26)September 26, 1862
Figeac, France
DiedJune 16, 1916(1916-06-16) (aged 53)
Paris, France
RelativesClaire Delbos (daughter)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic advisorsLéon Ollé-Laprune
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
Doctoral studentsÉtienne Gilson[1]

Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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

  1. ^ Séances et Travaux de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques: Compte Rendu. A. Picard et Fils. 1913. p. 117. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ^ Oliva Blanchette, Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life, 2010, p.30-76
  3. ^ Cristina Chimisso, Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s, 2008, p.48