Léon Robin (

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 French philosophers French historians of philosophy French male non-fiction writers French translators {{france-translator-stub