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ETIENNE VACHEROT (1809-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETIENNE See also:VACHEROT (1809-1897)  , See also:French philosophical writer, was See also:born of See also:peasant parentage at Torcenay, near See also:Langres, on the 29th of See also:July 1809 . He was educated at the Ecole Nor-male, and returned thither as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships . In 1839 he succeeded his See also:master See also:Cousin as See also:professor of See also:philosophy at the See also:Sorbonne . His Histoire critique de l'ecole d'Alexandrie (3 vols . 1846-51), his first and best-known See also:work, See also:drew on him attacks from the Clerical party which led to his suspension in 1851 . Shortly afterwards he refused to swear See also:allegiance to the new imperial See also:government, and was dismissed the service . His work Democratie (1859) led to a See also:political See also:prosecution and imprisonment . In 1868 he was elected to the French See also:Academy . On the fall of the See also:Empire he took an active See also:part in politics, was moire of a See also:district of See also:Paris during the See also:siege, and in 1871 was in the See also:National See also:Assembly, voting as a Moderate Liberal . In 1893 he drew nearer the Conservatives, after which he was never . again successful as a See also:parliamentary See also:candidate, though he maintained his principles vigorously in the See also:press . He died on the 28th of July 1897 See also:Vacherot was a See also:man of high See also:character and adhered strictly to his principles, which were generally opposed to those of the party in See also:power . His See also:chief philosophical importance consists in the fact that he was a See also:leader in the See also:attempt to revivify French philosophy by the new thought of See also:Germany, to which he had been introduced by Cousin, but of which he never had more than a second-See also:hand knowledge .

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Metaphysics he held to be based on See also:psychology . He maintains the unity and freedom of the soul, and the See also:absolute See also:obligation of the moral See also:law . In See also:religion, which was his See also:main See also:interest, he was much influenced by See also:Hegel, and appears somewhat in the ambiguous position of a sceptic anxious to believe . He See also:sees insoluble contradictions in every mode of conceiving See also:God as real, yet he See also:advocates religiousbelief, though the See also:object of that belief have but an abstract or imaginary existence . His other See also:works are: La Mitaphysique et la See also:science (1858), Essais de philosophie critique (1864), La Religion (1869), La Science et la See also:conscience (187o), Le Nouveau Spiritualisme (1884), La Democratie liberale (1892) . See we Laprune, See also:Etienne Vacherot (Paris, 1898) .

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