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Émile Boutroux
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Émile Boutroux, French philosopher
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Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux
28 July 1845 Montrouge, now in the Hauts-de-Seine
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| Died | 22 November 1921 (aged 76) Paris, France
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| Alma mater | École normale supérieure Heidelberg University |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | French spiritualism |
| Institutions | University of Nancy University of Paris |
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Philosophy of religion |
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Religion and science are compatible The contingent character of the laws of nature |
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Émile Boutroux (born July 28, 1845 – died November 22, 1921) was an important French thinker. He lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was a philosopher who studied both science and religion.
Boutroux believed that science and religion could work together. This was a big idea when science was becoming very powerful. He was also against the idea of materialism, which says that only physical things exist.
Émile Boutroux's Life Story
Émile Boutroux was born on July 28, 1845, in a town called Montrouge. This town is near Paris, France. He went to a school called the Lycée Napoléon. Later, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure.
Between 1869 and 1870, he continued his studies in Germany. He attended Heidelberg University. There, he learned from famous thinkers like Hermann von Helmholtz.
His first job was teaching philosophy. He taught at a school in Caen, France. In 1874, he wrote an important book. It was called The Contingency of the Laws of Nature. This book looked at how the ideas of Immanuel Kant related to science.
From 1874 to 1876, Boutroux taught at the University of Nancy. While there, he married Aline Poincaré. She was the sister of a famous scientist and mathematician, Henri Poincaré. Émile and Aline had a son named Pierre in 1880. Pierre also became a well-known mathematician.
In 1888, Boutroux became a professor in Paris. He taught the history of modern philosophy at the Sorbonne.
He became a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1898. In 1902, he became the director of the Thiers Foundation. This place was a home for some of France's smartest students. In 1912, he was chosen to be a member of the Académie Française. This is a very respected group in France.
Émile Boutroux passed away in November 1921.
What Did Émile Boutroux Write About?
Émile Boutroux wrote many books and articles. His most famous work was The Contingency of the Laws of Nature. In this book, he explored the idea that the laws of nature might not be as fixed as people thought. He suggested they could be "contingent," meaning they depend on other things.
He also wrote about how science and religion connect. One of his books was called Science and Religion in Contemporary Philosophy. He believed that these two important parts of human understanding could exist together.
Some of his other works included:
- Pascal (1900)
- William James (1911)
- Historical Studies in Philosophy (1912, translated into English)
- Natural Law in Science and Philosophy (1914, translated into English)
He also helped translate important works by other philosophers. For example, he translated The Philosophy of the Greeks by Eduard Zeller.
See also
In Spanish: Émile Boutroux para niños
