Elme Marie Caro (4 March 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – 13 July 1887, Paris) was a French philosopher.
Elme Marie Caro | |
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| Born | 4 March 1826 |
| Died | 13 July 1887 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Collège Stanislas de Paris |
| Occupation | professor |
| Spouse | Pauline Cassin |
| Academic advisors | Jules Simon, Émile Saisset[1] |
| Language | French |
Life
editHis 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 in 1852 on the subject of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and came to Paris in 1858 as master of conferences at the École Normale.[2][3]
In 1861 he became inspector of the Academy of Paris, in 1864 professor of philosophy to the Faculty of Letters, and in 1874 a member of the Académie Française. He married Pauline Cassin, the author of Le Péché de Madeleine and other well-known novels.[2]
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.[2]
He wrote important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux Mondes.[2]
Selected publications
edit- 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)[4]
- M. Littré et le positivisme (1883)
- George Sand (1887)
- Mélanges et portraits (1888)
References
edit- ^ Caro, E. (1852). Essai sur la vie et la doctrine de Saint-Martin, le philosophe inconnu. Hachette. ISBN 978-0-7905-7562-9. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Bonnefon, Paul (1916). "Les débuts d'Elme Caro". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 23 (3/4): 441–481. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 40517995.
- ^ "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.
Sources
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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. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 379.
