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

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " one of his masterpieces.

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

A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

* 1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer

* 1989: France celebrated the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, notably with a monumental show on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, directed by French designer Jean-Paul Goude.

* 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

* 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.

* 1768 – Charlotte Corday, French murderer of Jean-Paul Marat ( d. 1793 )

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980 ) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.

* Judaken, Jonathan ( 2006 ) " Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* Jean-Paul Marat, French journalist

* May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutioner, doctor, scientist ( d. 1793 )

* July 13 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-born French Revolutionary leader ( assassinated ) ( b. 1743 )

* July 17 – Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat ( executed ) ( b. 1768 )

* December 5 – Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1743 )

French murderess of Jean-Paul Marat ( d. 1793 )

Jean-Paul Belmondo ( ; born 9 April 1933 ) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.

On 19 November 1793, the city changed its name to Hâvre de Marat and later Hâvre-Marat in honour of the recently deceased Jean-Paul Marat, who was seen as a martyr of the French Revolution.

Jean-Paul Marat (; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793 ), born in the Principality of Neuchâtel, was a physician, political theorist, and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.

French author Jean-Paul Sartre publicly praised Céline during this period.