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  Victor Cousin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The lycée had a connection with the university, and when Cousin left the secondary school he was "crowned" in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for the Latin oration delivered by him there, in the general concourse of his school competitors.
It was through this "triple discipline" that Cousin's philosophical thought was first developed, and that in 1815 he began the public teaching of philosophy in the Normal School and in the faculty of letters.
Cousin was opposed to Kant in asserting that the unconditioned in the form of infinite or absolute cause is but Schelling a mere unrealizable tentative or effort on the part of and something different from a mere negation, yet not equivalent to a positive thought.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Victor Cousin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) philosopher (A specialist in philosophy).
Otherwise, as Cousin himself remarks, it is simply a blind and useless syncretism (The fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)).
The doctrine of Cousin was criticized by Sir W Hamilton (additional info and facts about Sir W Hamilton) in the Edinburgh Review of 1829, and it was animadverted upon about the same time by Schelling.
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 COUSIN, VICTOR. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Recalled to teaching in 1828, Cousin was named in 1830 to the council of public instruction and was made councillor of state.
As an eclectic, Cousin sought to develop a system that combined the psychological insights of Maine de Biran, the common sense of the Scottish school, and the idealism of Hegel and Schelling.
Cousin’s approach to philosophy was historical, and he introduced the study of the history of philosophy into the French academic course.
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 Victor Cousin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cousin sacrificed his reputation from the moment the affair began, for were it not bad enough that the woman was married, it also looked poorly that he was forever pulling strings with high society to make her life easier.
Colet and Cousin were perhaps the better match, their relationship was subject to far less drama and conflict at its worst than the relationship of Flaubert and Colet on a good day, but for Colet nothing would suffice but that level of passion, however misguided.
Cousin's family barely honored the request, leaving her with only a few hundred francs, and a memory of a love that could have been.
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 Victor Cousin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The lycée had a connection with the university, andwhen Cousin left the secondary school he was "crowned" in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for the Latin oration delivered by him there,in the general concourse of his school competitors.
It was through this"triple discipline" that Cousin's philosophical thought was first developed, and that in 1815 he began the public teaching of philosophy in the Normal School and in the faculty of letters.
It was to the effortsof Cousin that France owed her advance, in gelation to primary education, between 1830 and 1848.
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 Victor Cousin
Cousin was set to lecture on philosophy, and quickly obtained the position of master of conferences (maître de conférences) in the school.
To the observation of consciousness Cousin adds induction as the complement of his method, by which he means inference as to reality necessitated by the data of consciousness, and regulated by certain laws found in consciousness, viz.
The correlation of the ideas of infinite and finite doesn't necessarily imply their correality, as Cousin supposes; on the contrary, it is a presumption that finite is simply positive and infinite negative of the same--that the finite and infinite are simply contradictory relatives.
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 Victor Cousin Biography / Biography of Victor Cousin Biography
Victor Cousin was born in Paris in the midst of the Revolution on Nov. 28, 1792, the son of a poor watchmaker.
A woman of means, she gratefully paid for Cousin's schooling at the Lycée Charlemagne, where he became one of the most brilliant students in the school's history.
By studying the history of philosophy, and Cousin directed his students to choose from each system what is true in it and in so doing to arrive at a complete philosophy.
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 Victor Emmanuel III articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Emmanuel III VICTOR EMMANUEL III [Victor Emmanuel III] 1869-1947, king of Italy (1900-1946), emperor of Ethiopia (1936-43), king of Albania (1939-43), son and successor of Humbert I. In 1896 he married Princess Helena of Montenegro.
Victor Amadeus III VICTOR AMADEUS III [Victor Amadeus III] 1726-96, king of Sardinia (1773-96), son and successor of Charles Emmanuel III.
Victor Amadeus II VICTOR AMADEUS II [Victor Amadeus II], 1666-1732, duke of Savoy (1675-1713), king of Sicily (1713-20), king of Sardinia (1720-30).
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 COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1... - Online Information article about COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1...
The correlation of the ideas of infinite and finite does not necessarily imply their correality, as Cousin supposes; on the contrary, it is a presumption that finite is simply positive and infinite negative of the same—that the finite and infinite are simply contradictory relatives.
Secondly, the conditions of intelligence, which Cousin allows, necessarily exclude the possibility of know-ledge of the absolute—they are held to be incompatible with its unity.
Cousin's doctrine of spontaneity in volition can hardly be said to be more successful than his impersonality of the reason through spontaneous apperception.
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 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: The Successors of Kant
The disrespect largely prevalent for the philosophy of Victor Cousin (picture) is based upon his emphasis of eclecticism, a term he used to characterize his method, disregarding the pejorative meaning of the word which implied shallowness and dependence.
Cousin believed that he had discovered a method of intellectual distillation whereby the method of essential truth could be extrapolated from the various historical systems.
Cousin became a peer of France, royal councilor, and minister of public education during the regime of Louis Philippe.
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 Victor Cousin: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Cousin (November 28, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cousin was opposed to Kant in asserting that the unconditioned in the form of infinite or absolute cause is but Schelling a mere unrealizable tentative or effort on the part of and something different from a mere negation, EHandler: no quick summary.
Cousin made no reply to Hamilton's criticism beyond alleging that Hamilton's doctrine necessarily restricted human knowledge and certainty to psychology and logic, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 VICTOR COUSIN
E Cousin vide e proclamò a partire dal primo periodo del suo insegnamento filosofico la necessità di un sistema su cui basare il proprio eclettismo.
Cousin guarda al metodo del XVIII secolo - il metodo che Descartes intraprese ed abbandonò, che Locke e Condillac applicarono, sebbene in maniera imperfetta, e che Reid e Kant impiegarono con maggiore, sebbene non ancora completo, successo.
Cousin insiste nell’affermare che questo è il vero metodo della filosofia applicato alla coscienza, in cui non appaiono che i fatti dell’esperienza.
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 Victor Cousin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Cousin, a prolific French philosopher, championed a system he called Eclecticism and for a time held considerable influence in New England.
The Transcendentalists enjoyed Cousin's rejection of Lockean materialism and sensationalism as well as his elegant manner of presenting contemporary German thought, which made the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, among others, more appealing and accessible.
Cousin's own system was the once famous, now discarded eclecticism, under cover of which another phase of idealism was presented which found favor in America.
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 Victor Cousin - Wikipédia
Victor Cousin est né à Paris (France), le 28 novembre 1792 et mort à Cannes, le 14 janvier 1867.
Académicien, il a soutenu les candidatures de Victor Hugo, de Falloux et Lacordaire.
Un prix Victor Cousin, décerné par concours, a été organisé en 1896 par l'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.
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 Your Wedding Webpage - The Knot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He and his father were laying vinyl in a church when one of the pastors of the church approached them as he heard them speak spanish.
Victor says that he fell in love with Anabelle during that time.
As the parents were talking, Victor was also nervous as he kept playing with his pockets.
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 Victor Cousin - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Another thinker who influenced him at this early period was Maine_de_Biran, whom Cousin regarded as the unequalled psychological observer of his time in France.
The Normal School was swept away, and Cousin shared the fate of in 1824-1825 he was thrown into prison, either on some ill-defined political charge at the instance of the French police, or as a result of an indiscreet conversation.
This observational method Cousin regards as that of the 18th_century--the method which Descartes began and abandoned, and which Locke and Condillac applied, though imperfectly, and which Thomas_Reid and Kant used with more success.
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 Louis, 7th duc de Broglie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), younger son of Victor, 5th duc de Broglie.
In 1960, upon the death without heir of his older brother, Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, also a physicist, he became the 7th duc de Broglie.
When he died in Louveciennes (Yvelines), he was succeeded as duke by a distant cousin, Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie.
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 Touched By An Angel Episode 918: "Virtual Reality"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The defense claims that Victor tried to stop, and that it was the fear of an inexperienced driver that led him to flee the scene of the accident.
She finds out that he’s been living with his aunt and uncle, Victor’s parents, while his own mother and father are in the midst of a divorce.
He says that Victor was trying to kill her, he was sick of playing the game on a computer screen and wanted to do it for real.
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 VDH's Private Papers::America's Historian Chief
This interview with Victor Davis Hanson by Alan Dowd of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research was conducted on April 5, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and published in the September 2005 issue of the American Legion.
Victor Davis Hanson (VDH): My father had a cousin named Victor, whose mother died in childbirth and whose father was blinded.
Victor was in the Sixth Marine Division and fought in all the worst fighting in Okinawa.
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 Portrait of Victor Cousin (Getty Museum)
Looking out from Nadar's photograph, evidently intent on being seen as serious, Victor Cousin appears gravely suspicious of the process that will fix his image for posterity.
Cousin was well into his sixties, and, his somewhat disheveled appearance advertises his status as an elderly bachelor.
Through retouching the negative, Nadar tried to simplify Cousin's silhouette by eliminating the back of the chair on which he sat; its traces remain, however, interrupting the otherwise smooth line of the right shoulder.
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 Oasis: Living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Barbara Angles descends from Phillip Victor, the uncle of Jacob Nash Victor (1835-1907), who in 1885, as general manager of the California Southern Railway, oversaw construction of the first railroad to climb the Cajon Pass and connect with the Atlantic and Pacific at Barstow.
And soon, yet another of the Victor clan — Joyce Howell — wrote to Bascom, saying that the year before, she had been in Victorville to visit her first cousin Barbara Angles and Barbara’s mother, Pauline Stiles Medina.
Their son Philip Victor Bayles (again a spelling had changed) was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania.
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 Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin wurde in Paris geboren und lebte 1792 bis 1867.
Cousin war Inhaber verschiedener universitärer Titel seit 1814 an der Sorbonne und hatte Regierungsämter inne.
Cousin außerdem eine unvollständige Ausgabe von Abaelards "Dialectica" MS Paris Bibl.
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 Victor Emmanuel II articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor Emmanuel II VICTOR EMMANUEL II [Victor Emmanuel II] 1820-78, king of Sardinia (1849-61) and first king of united Italy (1861-78).
The active force behind King Victor Emmanuel II, he was responsible more than any other man for the unification of Italy under the house of Savoy
Amadeus AMADEUS [Amadeus] 1845-90, king of Spain (1870-73), duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
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 The Memoirs of Victor Hugo - Chapter V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
VICTOR COUSIN.--I desire to point out to M. Hugo that the alterations of which he complains come from the movement of the language, which is nothing else than decadence.
MYSELF.--M. Cousin having addressed a personal observation to me, I beg to point out to him in turn that his opinion is, in my estimation, merely an opinion and nothing more.
Cousin, to M. Lebrun, director: "You did not employ the sacramental expression.
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 Your Wedding Webpage - The Knot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Victor, you look like a great guy and with a name like Victor, how could you not be?
Mandy, you are an awesome lady and I wish you and Victor all the happiness in the world.
I cannot wait to meet Victor and see you again but unfortunately we will not be able to at your wedding.
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 Cousin, Victor - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cousin, Victor - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research
COUSIN, VICTOR [Cousin, Victor], 1792-1867, French educational leader and philosopher, founder of the eclectic school.
Bibliography: See G. Boas, French Philosophies of the Romantic Period (1925); W. Brewer, Victor Cousin as a Comparative Educator (1971).
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 Chronique de Dinosaure V : Victor ou comment s'en débarasser.
Victor Cousin, qui en son temps avait opéré une synthèse assez originale entre la philosophie et la politique, a poussé fort loin l’art des conjonctures.
Si Cousin est, par excellence, le politique de la philosophie, c’est donc parce qu’il a eu en permanence le souci d’adapter aussi étroitement que possible une recherche intellectuelle à des besoins historiques qu’il s’employait à apprécier au jour le jour, en épousant les sinuosités de l’actualité politique et de ses conflits.
Nul, pas même Victor Cousin qui a tant fait, et peut-être trop, pour le devenir, n’est prophète en son pays.
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 UKTV Food: What's on TV: Episodes: One Foot in the Grave
Surreal situations serve to drive Victor Meldrew further up the wall and his wife around the bend in the finely-written sitcom.
And Victor's interest in tropical fish arouses the interest of the local Greenpeace branch.
Roger¸ Victor's cousin¸ accidentally invites the couple to his 60th birthday.
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