Victor Delbos
Étienne Marie Justin 'Victor Delbos' was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Biography
Delbos was born on 26 September 1862, in Figeac. He was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911, he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died on 16 June 1916, aged 53, in Paris, as a result of an infectious myocarditis brought on by pleurisy. Maurice Blondel, a close friend, wrote an obituary account of Delbos and saw various posthumous publications through the press.Delbos was the father of the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. In turn, he was the father-in-law of Olivier Messiaen.
Work
He wrote on Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche and Kant. A series of lectures on post-Kantian philosophy, which Delbos viewed as shaped by contingent psychological and social factors rather than through the unfolding of some internal logic, were published posthumously and later collected in a single volume.Works
- Le problème moral dans la philosophie de Spinoza et dans l'histoire du spinozisme, Paris: Alcan, 1893
- La Philosophie pratique de Kant, 1905
- Le spinozisme : cours professé à la Sorbonne en 1912-1913, 1916
- La philosophie française, 1919
- Étude de la philosophie de Malebranche, 1924
- De Kant aux postkantiens, 1942