Victor Charles Louis Brochard (; 29 June 1848 – 25 November 1907) was a French philosopher and

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Life

Victor Brochard was born in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle. He entered the

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

in 1868, and in 1872 was appointed professor of philosophy at the lycée de Pau. After a succession of other

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appointments, he was appointed lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in 1886. A few years later he was appointed professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne. Brochard died in

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read and used Brochard's book on the Greek Skeptics intensively. Andreas Urs Sommer: Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche, in: Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Oxford 2006, pp. 250–269.

Works

* ''De l'erreur'', 1879. * (ed.) ''Discours de la méthode'' by

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. 1883. * ''Les sceptiques grecs'', 1887. * ''Études de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne'', 1912.

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1848 births 1907 deaths 19th-century French philosophers 20th-century French philosophers French historians of philosophy French male non-fiction writers {{France-philosopher-stub