French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

According to many of Descartes ' specialists, including Étienne Gilson, the goal of Descartes in establishing this first truth is to demonstrate the capacity of his criterion — the immediate clarity and distinctiveness of self-evident propositions — to establish true and justified propositions despite having adopted a method of generalized doubt.

* 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher ( d. 1978 )

Academic Scholasticism went into decline in the 1970s when the Thomistic revival that had been spearheaded by Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and others came to an end.

Such an approach allowed religious philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas and Étienne Gilson to try to show that reason and revelation are compatible.

The evil demon is omnipotent, Christian doctrine notwithstanding, and is seen as a key requirement for Descartes ' argument by Cartesian scholars such as Alguié, Beck, Émile Bréhier, Chevalier, Frankfurt, Étienne Gilson, Anthony Kenny, Laporte, Kemp-Smith, and Wilson.

It was titled The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Étienne Gilson, and inside he encountered an explanation of God that he found both logical and pragmatic.

Strauss became a lifelong friend of Alexandre Kojève and was on friendly terms with Raymond Aron, Alexandre Koyré, and Étienne Gilson.

Modern authors important to the formation of Christian democratic ideology include Emmanuel Mounier, Étienne Gilson, and Jacques Maritain.

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In the first half of the twentieth century, Edouard Hugon, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Étienne Gilson, and Jacques Maritain, among others, carried on Leo's call for a Thomist revival ( Paterson & Pugh, xiii-xxiii ).

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He read the Thomistic philosophers Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain — one of the main Catholic thinkers of his youth — as well as Jean Guitton, but also the Protestant philosopher Paul Ricœur, and Maurice Clavel, and the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

Introduction by Étienne Gilson.

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* Étienne Gilson

* Étienne Gilson

That the evil demon is omnipotent, Christian doctrine notwithstanding, is seen as a key requirement for Descartes ' argument by Cartesian scholars such as Ferdinand Alquié, Beck, Émile Bréhier, Chevalier, Frankfurt, Étienne Gilson, Anthony Kenny, Laporte, Kemp-Smith, and Wilson.

Étienne Gilson ( 13 June 1884, Paris ( 7th arrondissement ) – 19 September 1978, Auxerre ) was a French Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy.

* Étienne Gilson, The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 1956, ISBN 0-268-00801-9

* Antonio Livi, Étienne Gilson: filosofia cristiana e idea del limite critico, Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 1970

* Henri Gouhier, Étienne Gilson: trois essais, Vrin, 1993, p. 75

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Étienne found employment first in a commercial house in Marseille, and then in an insurance office in Paris.

The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Télémaque “ the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination .” One of the most popular works of the century, it was an immediate best seller both in France and abroad, going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse ( first in Berlin in 1743, then in Paris by Étienne Viel ).

He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974.

Born in Saint-Étienne ( Loire ), Janin's father was a lawyer, and he was educated first at St. Étienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.

Joubert fell in the battle, and Moreau then conducted the retreat of the army to Genoa, where he handed over the command to Jean Étienne Championnet.

Disillusioned, the miners go back to work, blaming Étienne for the failure of the strike ; then, Souvarine sabotages the entrance shaft of one of the Montsou pits, trapping Étienne, Catherine and Chaval at the bottom.

During the early 1990s Mobutu allowed a transitional parliament to be set up, and Kengo was chosen Prime Minister by it in 1994 as a candidate in an attempt to neutralise the challenge from the country's then most popular politician, Étienne Tshisekedi.

Le Plongeon actually got the name " Mu " from Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg who in 1864 mistranslated what was then called the Troano Codex using the de Landa alphabet.

* Pre-Romanticism ( end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century ): The influence of the English philosopher John Locke, together with that of the French Étienne Bonnot of Condillac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Denis Diderot, will cause a new feeling, dissatisfaction with the tyranny of reason, that emphasizes the right of the individuals to express their personal emotions ( repressed then by the neoclassicals ), among which figures fundamentally love.

Maison Étienne Nivard de Saint-Dizier He then donated his land to St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, who in turn sold it to Étienne Nivard de Saint-Dizier in 1769.

It was then that he met both Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who were to remain heroes for his entire life, to populate his later medical journalism, and to become the subject of his hagiography, Great artists and great anatomists.

Étienne de Vignolles, a mercenary ( routier ) known as La Hire, then re-captured Château Gaillard for the French in 1430.

Despite a decent season during which he managed to score six goals, he felt like he could not fully express his potential and returned to France after just one year, to Nîmes and then Saint Étienne, where again he not only imposed himself as one of the best defenders in the league, but also scored 13 goals in his last season with the latter club.

He was then replaced as governor of Louisiana by Étienne Périer in 1727.

He was then succeeded by Étienne Hubert d ' Orléans from 1598 to 1600.

His father, Étienne Pascal ( 1588 – 1651 ), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge and member of the " Noblesse de Robe ".

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

It was only when Jacqueline performed well in a children's play with Richelieu in attendance that Étienne was pardoned.

In time Étienne was back in good graces with the cardinal, and in 1639 had been appointed the king's commissioner of taxes in the city of Rouen — a city whose tax records, thanks to uprisings, were in utter chaos.

In 2005, Clipperton's ecosystem was extensively studied for four months by a scientific mission organized by Jean-Louis Étienne, which made a complete inventory of mineral, plant, and animal species found on the atoll, studied algae as deep as 100 m ( 330 ft ) below sea level, and examined the effects of pollution on the island.

The first-ever affinity table, which was based on displacement reactions, was published in 1718 by the French chemist Étienne François Geoffroy.

The libretto was by Étienne Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, but their version was revised by Armand Marrast.

The first commercially successful internal combustion engine was created by Étienne Lenoir.

The first documented European visit to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River.

In 1669, the Frenchman Louis Jolliet was the first documented European to sight Lake Erie, although there is speculation that Étienne Brûlé may have come across it in 1615.

The first documented European to reach the lake was Étienne Brûlé in 1615.

Étienne Lamotte, who translated one third of the work into French, felt that it was the work of a North Indian bhikṣu of the Sarvāstivāda school, who later became a convert to the Mahayana.

The first formal formulation was proposed by Étienne Serres in 1824 – 26 as what became known as the " Meckel-Serres Law ", it attempted to provide a link between comparative embryology and a " pattern of unification " in the organic world.

It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and became a prominent part of his ideas which suggested that past transformations of life could have had environmental causes working on the embryo, rather than on the adult as in Lamarckism.

Pope Innocent VI ( 1282 or 1295 – 12 September 1362 ), born Étienne Aubert, was Pope from 18 December 1352 until his death.

Bentham's book was not an immediate success but his ideas were spread further when Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont translated edited selections from a variety of Bentham's manuscripts into French.

The Belgian premiere of the opera was given at La Monnaie on 22 March 1870 with Étienne Troy as Friedrich of Telramund and Feliciano Pons as Heinrich der Vogler.

Also in May, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, the archbishop of Toulouse and one of the queen's political allies, was appointed by the king to replace Calonne as the Finance Minister.

In the subsequent 10 years, Étienne applied his talent for technical innovation to the family business ; paper making was a high-tech industry in the 18th century.

Étienne was the epitome of sober virtues ... modest in clothes and manner ...

It is fitting that Étienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Réveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.