Charles Secretan (January 19, 1815 – January 21, 1895) was a
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philosopher. He was born on 19 January 1815 in
Lausanne
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, Switzerland, where he also died on 21 January 1895.
Educated in his native town and later under
Friedrich Schelling
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in
Munich
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, he became a professor of philosophy at Lausanne (1838 to 1846), and later at
Neuchâtel
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. In 1866 he returned to his old position at Lausanne.
In 1837 he founded, and for a time edited the ''Revue Suisse''. The object of his writing was to build up a rational, philosophical religion to reconcile the ultimate bases of Christianity with the principles of
metaphysical philosophy.
Works
*''La Philosophie de la liberté'' (1848)
*''La Raison et le Christianisme'' (1863)
*''La Civilisation et les croyances'' (1887)
*''Les Droits de l'Humanité'' (1890)
*''Mon Utopie'' (1892)
*Preface to ''Le problème de l'immortalité'' by
Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff (1892)
References
Attribution:
* This work in turn cites:
**
François T. Pillon, ''La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan'' (Paris 1898; reprinted 2006)
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1815 births
1895 deaths
19th-century Swiss philosophers
Swiss Protestants