Gustave Belot (7 August 1859 – 21 December 1929) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at
Strasbourg
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,
[''Archives de psychologie'', Vol. 23, 1932, p.77] the son of a professor in the faculty of letters at
Lyon
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s. He entered the
École Normale Supérieure
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in 1878, taking the philosophy ''
agrégation
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'' in 1881, and becoming a provincial philosophy instructor at
Brest
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and elsewhere.
[Mathias Gardet,''Histoire des PEP: pupilles de l'école publique'',Editions Beauchesne, 2008, p.175] In 1899 he succeeded
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (10 April 1857 – 13 March 1939) was a French scholar trained in philosophy who furthered anthropology with his contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field interest was ways of thinking.
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as professor of philosophy at the
''lycée'' Louis-le-Grand. In 1911 he was appointed Inspector of the Paris Academy, and in 1913 he became Inspector-General of Secondary Instruction.
[Cristina Chimisso, ''Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s'', Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008, p.43] He died in
Paris
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on 21 December 1929.
[ Informed by Durkheimian sociology, he was a theorist of collectively-held 'lay morality', which was rational and based upon general interest.
Gustave Belot is the brother of Émile Belot (1857-1944), engineer, inventor and astronomer, and the great great uncle of ]Pierre Pincemaille
Pierre-Marie François Pincemaille (8 December 1956 – 12 January 2018) was a French organist, improviser, and pedagogue. He was known for his organ improvisations, both in concert and on CD and for his recordings of Charles-Marie Widor's ...
(1956-2018), musician and organist.
Works
* ''Études sur la philosophie morale, au XIXe siècle: leçons professées á l'École des hautes études sociales'', 1904.
* ''Études de morale positive'', 1907.
* ''Morales et religions: leçons professées á l'École des hautes études sociales'', 1909.
* ''La conscience française et la guerre'', 1921.
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1859 births
1929 deaths
19th-century French philosophers
French male non-fiction writers
Commanders of the Legion of Honour
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers
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