ELME

MARIE

See also:

• CARO, ANNIBALE (1507-1566)
• ELME MARIE CARO (1826-1887)

CARO (1826-1887)  , French philosopher, was born on the 4th of March 1826 at Poitiers . His father, a professor of philosophy, gave him an excellent education at the Stanislas College and the Ecole 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 x858 as master of conferences at the Icole Normale . 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 French Academy . He married Pauline Cassin, the authoress of the Peche de Madeleine and other well-known novels . He died in Paris on the 13th of July 1887 . In his philosophy he was mainly concerned to defend Christianity against modern Positivism . The philosophy of Cousin influenced him strongly, but his strength lay in exposition and criticism rather than in original thought . Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Le Mysticisme au X V III' siecle (1852-1854), L'Idee de Dieu( 1864), LeMaterialisme et la science (1868), Le Pessimisme au XIX° siecle (1878), Jours d'epreuaes (1872), M . Littre et le positivisme (1883), George Sand (1887), Melanges et portraits (1888), La Philosophie de Goethe (2nd ed., 188o) .