Louis Eugène Marie Bautain wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Louis Eugène Marie Bautain as French philosopher and theologian (1796-1867).
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain was born at former 7th arrondissement of Paris in 1796. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and Lycée Charlemagne.
Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
The honours record reads: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1840).
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain died in 1867, aged 71. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1840
