Charles Secrétan
Charles Secretan (1815–1895) was a Swiss philosopher. He was born on January 19, 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on January 21, 1895.
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| Born | January 19, 1815 |
| Died | January 21, 1895 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Professor of philosophy at Lausanne and Neuchâtel |
| Known for | Founding/editing Revue Suisse |
Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in Munich, he became a professor of philosophy at Lausanne (1838 to 1846), and later at Neuchâtel. In 1866 he returned to his old position at Lausanne.
In 1837 he founded, and for a time edited the Revue Suisse. The object of his writing was to build up a rational, philosophical religion to reconcile the ultimate bases of Christianity with the principles of metaphysical philosophy.
Works
- La Philosophie de la liberté (1848)
- La Raison et le Christianisme (1863)
- La Civilisation et les croyances (1887)
- Les Droits de l'Humanité (1890)
- Mon Utopie (1892)
- preface to Le problème de l'immortalité by Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff (1892)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Secrétan, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 571. This work in turn cites:
- François T. Pillon, La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan (Paris 1898; reprinted 2006)
External links
- Works by Charles Secrétan at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Secrétan at Internet Archive
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