Alfred Espinas

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Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche. He was a student of Comte and Spencer. Although initially an adherent of positivism, he later became a committed realist.

Works

  • Des sociétés animales (1877)
  • Les origines de la technologie (1897)
  • La philosophie sociale an XVIIIe siècle et la Revolution (1898)
  • Descartes et la morale: Etudes sur l'histoire de la philosophie de l'action (1925)



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