Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet as French philosopher (1815–1880).
Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet was born at Lyon in 1815. His recorded nationality is France.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1845).
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet died in 1880, aged 65. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1845
