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See also: Henry IV. of
See also: France, was See also: born near Angouleme
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He was of humble origin and began See also: life as a See also: valet de chambre, but after-wards became a lawyer and also teacher of a school
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After having been imprisoned by his creditors, he sought See also: admission to the recently founded See also: order of Feuillants, but after a See also: short See also: probation was dismissed as a visionary
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An application for admission to the Society of Jesus was equally unsuccessful in 1606
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His disappointments fostered a fanatical temperament, and rumours that the See also: king was intending to make war upon the
See also: pope suggested to him the idea of assassination, which he carried out on the 14th of May 1610
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In the course of his trial he was frequently put to the torture, but persistently (and it is now believed truly) denied that he had been prompted by any one or had any accomplices
.
See also: Sentence of See also: death was carried out on the 27th of May following
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See Jules Loiseleur, See also: Ravaillac et ses complices (1873), and E
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See also: Lavisse, Hisloire de France, tome vi
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(See also: Paris, 1905)
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RAVAISSON-MOLLIEN, See also: JEAN GASPARD FELIX (1813–1900), French philosopher and archaeologist, was born at See also: Namur on the 23rd of See also: October 1813
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After a successful course of study at the See also: College See also: Rollin, he proceeded to See also: Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836
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In the following See also: year he published the first See also: volume of his famous See also: work Essai sur la metaphysique d'Aristote, to which in 1846 he added a supplementary volume
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This work not only criticizes and comments on the theories of See also: Aristotle and the Peripatetics, but also deduces from them a See also: modern philosophical See also: system
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In 1838 he received the degree of See also: doctor, and became professor of philosophy at See also: Rennes
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From 1840 he was inspector-general of public See also: libraries, and in 186o became inspector-general in the department of higher See also: education
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He was also a member of the See also: Academy, and of the Academy of Moral and See also: Political Science, and curator of the Department of Antiquities at the Louvre (from 1870)
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He died in Paris on the 18th of May 1900
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In philosophy, he was one of the school of See also: Cousin, with whom, however, he was at issue in many importantpoints
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The See also: act of consciousness, according to him, is the basis of all knowledge
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These acts of consciousness are manifestations of will, which is the See also: motive and creative power of the intellectual life
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The idea of See also: God is a cumulative intuition given by all the various faculties of the mind, in its observation of harmony in nature and in See also: man
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This theory had considerable influence on speculative philosophy in France during the later years of the 19th century
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Ravaisson's chief philosophical See also: works are: " See also: Les Fragments philosophiques de See also: Hamilton " (in the Revue
See also: des Deux Mondes, See also: November, 1840) ; Rapport sur le stoicisme (1851) ; La Philosophic en France an dix-neuvieme siecle (1868; 3rd ed., 1889); Morale et metaphysique (1893)
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Eminent as a philosopher, Ravaisson was also an archaeologist, and contributed articles on See also: ancient sculpture to the Revue Archeologique and the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions
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In 1871 he published a monograph on the See also: Venus of See also: Milo
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See Renouvier, in L'Annee philosophique (Paris, 1868) ; Dawriac, " Ravaisson philosophe et critique " (La Critique philosophique, 1885, vol. ii.)
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