Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

Category: French philosophers

French materialism is the name given to a handful of French 18th century philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the salon of Baron d ' Holbach.

The Encyclopédie, published by a group of philosophers over the years 1751 – 1777, summarized French male beliefs of women.

Category: French philosophers

Category: 20th-century French philosophers

Category: French philosophers

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Category: French political philosophers

Category: 20th-century French philosophers

Category: French philosophers

Category: French philosophers

Like other contemporary French and Italian philosophers, Vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on Heidegger for understanding Nietzsche.

Philosophers who Vattimo exemplifies as a part of this back and forth movement are French philosophers Deleuze, Foucault and Derrida.

Category: French philosophers

The works of the French philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot to name a few are paragon for political analysis, social science, social and political critic.

His international experiences allowed him to break from Jesuit influence and study French philosophers such as Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier as well as John Locke and David Hume.

The label primarily encompasses the intellectual developments of prominent mid-20th-century French and continental philosophers and theorists.

Also French philosophers specialized in Arabic commentaries on Aristotle's Rhetoric.

Category: French philosophers

Thus, French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze signed in November 1977 L ' Appel des intellectuels français contre la répression en Italie ( The Call of French Intellectuals Against Repression in Italy ) in protest against Negri's imprisonment and Italian anti-terrorism legislation.

Category: French philosophers

* 1613 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( d. 1692 )

* 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

* 1996 – Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter ( b. 1911 )

Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

* 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze used ideas from Butler's book at various points in the development of his philosophy of difference.

* 1945 – Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Gilles Grangier, French director ( d. 1996 )

* 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( d. 1904 )

* January 25 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher ( d. 1995 )

* August 8 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

* August 15 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( d. 1692 )

* July 23 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( b. 1613 )

* October 27 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( b. 1602 )

She established an excellent rapport with the French ambassador, Gilles de la Pommeraie.

* September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat ( d. 1440 )

* October 26 – Gilles de Rais, French soldier ( b. 1404 )

Proponents of process philosophy include Charles Hartshorne and Nicholas Rescher, and his ideas have been taken up by French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze.

The eponym was bestowed by Jean-Martin Charcot ( 1825 – 1893 ) on behalf of his resident, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette ( 1859 – 1904 ), a French physician and neurologist, who published an account of nine patients with Tourette's in 1885.

Watching the turn of events, Gilles de Rais persuaded Joan to immediately resume the assault, but to direct the French soldiers not on the Boulevart, but rather on the detached bastille of the Augustins.