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
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from 1924 to 1936.
Robin, the son of a merchant,
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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 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
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into French
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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
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