Émile Bréhier
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Émile Bréhier (1876 – 1952) was a French philosopher. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes.
The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.
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Life
Bréhier studied at the University of Paris. In 1908 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation about Philo of Alexandria. From 1910 to 1912 he was Master of Philosophical Conferences at the University of Rennes, and professor of philosophy at the University of Bordeaux from 1912 to 1914. He was Henri Bergson's successor at the University of Paris in 1945. The historian Louis Bréhier was his brother.
In 1914 Bréhier became a sub-lieutenant in the 344th Infantry Regiment; he was made knight of the Légion d'honneur.
Philosophical work
He was an early follower of Bergson; in the 1930s there was an influential view that Bergsonism and Neoplatonism were linked.
He has been called "the sole figure in the French history who adopts an Hegelian interpretation of Neoplatonism", but also a Neo-Kantian opponent of Hegel.
Works
- Les idées philosophiques et religieuses de Philon d'Alexandrie (1908)
- La Théorie des incorporels dans l'ancien stoïcisme, Paris, Librairie Alphonse Picard & fils, (1907).
- Schelling (1912)
- Histoire de la philosophie allemande (1921)
- La Philosophie de Plotin
- Plotin: Ennéades (with French translation), Collection Budé, 1924–1938
- Histoire de la philosophie – I Antiquité et moyen âge (three volumes), II La philosophie moderne (four volumes)
- La philosophie du moyen âge (1949)
- Le monde byzantin – la civilisation byzantine (1950)
- Chrysippe et l'ancien stoïcisme (Paris, 1951)
- Histoire de la philosophie allemande, 3rd edition updated by Paul Ricœur (1954).
- Études de philosophie antique (1955)
He contributed the articles "Philo Judaeus", and "Stoics and Stoic Philosophy" to the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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2023 in public domain, Afrikan Spir, Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism, Chrysippus, Cornelius Castoriadis, Dumitru D. Roșca, Enneads, Evil demon, Henri Bergson, Index of philosophy articles (D–H), J. Hunter Guthrie, Louis Bréhier, Louis Massebieau, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Misotheism, Philo's works, Plotinus, Ramism, Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher), Vladimir Jankélévitch, Zaki al-Arsuzi
