Léon Robin (
Nantes
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, 17 January 1866July 1947) was a French philosopher and scholar of Greek philosophy, professor of history of ancient philosophy at the
Sorbonne from 1924 to 1936.
Robin, the son of a merchant,
[ began teaching in the Faculty of Letters at Paris in 1913. In 1924 he took up the chair of history of ancient philosophy, which had lapsed after the death of Louis Rodier in 1913.][Cristina Chimisso, ''Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s'', 2008, p.24-26] In 1927 he was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania
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. On his retirement from the Paris chair, his successor was Pierre-Maxime Schuhl. Robin subsequently served as Director of the International Institute of Philosophy.[Joseph Bochenski, ''Contemporary European philosophy'', University of California Press, 1969, p.263]
Léon Robin translated the dialogues of Plato
Plato ( ; Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. H ...
into French.
Works
*''La théorie platonicienne des idées et des nombres d'après Aristote; étude historique et critique'', 1908
*''La théorie platonicienne de l'amour'', 1908
*(transl. and ed.) Plato, ''Oeuvres complètes'', 1920
*''La pensée grecque et les origines de l'esprit scientifique'', 1923. English translation, ''Greek thought and the origins of the scientific spirit'', 1928
*''La morale antique'', 1938
*''Pyrrhon et le scepticisme grec'', 1944
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1866 births
1947 deaths
20th-century French philosophers
French scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
Plato scholars
French male non-fiction writers
French translators
Academic staff of the University of Paris
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