Tradition
French philosophy
Overview
French philosophy is philosophy in the French language and by French people. It has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and postmodernism.
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Philosophers who discussed French philosophy
- Henri Bergson
- Simone Weil
- Noam Chomsky
- Alain de Botton
- René Descartes
- Voltaire
- Baruch Spinoza
- Georges Sorel
Related ideas
- Condemnations of 1210–1277
- Émilie du Châtelet
- Empiricism
- Encyclopédie
- Executive (government)
- The Guide for the Perplexed
- French language
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Mind–body problem
- Feminism
- French Revolution
- Foundationalism
- Anarchism
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Theory of impetus
- Letters on the English
- Arianism
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Le Monde
- Philosophical realism
- Auguste Comte
- Cartesianism
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Alexandre Koyré
- Anselm of Laon
- Anthony Giddens
- Antoine Arnauld
- Apodicticity
- Arianism
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Best of all possible worlds
- Bordeaux
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Discourse on Inequality
- Discourse on the Method
- Emile, or On Education
- Essays (Montaigne)
- Francia
- French people
- French Revolution of 1848
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Gaston Bachelard
- Georges Canguilhem
- Germania (book)
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Henri Estienne
- Hippolyte Taine