Émile Edmond Saisset (16 September 181427 December 1863) was a French philosopher.

Life

Émile Edmond Saisset was born at

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

. He studied philosophy at the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

, and carried on the eclectic tradition of his master along with Ravaisson and

Jules Simon Jules François Simon (; 31 December 1814 – 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans in the Third French Republic. Biography Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-dra ...

. In 1842 he was professor of philosophy at

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. He later moved on to the College de France in 1843. He became a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques at the

Sorbonne Sorbonne may refer to: * Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. *the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970) *one of its components or linked institution, ...

in 1862. Saisset, known as "fashionable psychologist", was associated with the Eclectic school of Victor Cousin. Saisset's chief works are a monograph on

Aenesidemus Aenesidemus ( grc, Αἰνησίδημος or Αἰνεσίδημος) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher, born in Knossos on the island of Crete. He lived in the 1st century BC, taught in Alexandria and flourished shortly after the life of Cic ...

the

Sceptic Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the pe ...

(1840); ''Le Scepticisme: Ænésidème, Pascal, Kant'' (1845); a translation of

Spinoza Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, b ...

(1843); ''Précurseurs et disciples de Descartes'' (1862); ''Discours de la philosophie de Leibniz'' (1857) (a work which had great influence on the progress of thought in France); ''Essai de philosophie religieuse'' (1859); ''Critique et histoire de la philosophie'' (1865). His untimely death in 1863, "a year after his appointment to the Sorbonne, surely prevented his literary output from being more formidable."

References

1814 births 1863 deaths French philosophers Academic staff of the University of Paris École Normale Supérieure alumni French male non-fiction writers Translators of Baruch Spinoza {{france-philosopher-stub