Andre Comte-Sponville
From Philosopedia
André Comte-Sponville (1952 - )
Comte-Sponville is a French atheist and materialist philosopher. He studied and received his doctorate in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure.
He has written the following:
- Traité du désespoir et de la béatitude (2 volumes, 1984-1988)
- Une éducation philosophique (1989)
- L'amour la solitude (1992)
- Petit Traité des Grandes Vertus (A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, or Short Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995)
- Valeur et Vérité (Etudes cyniques) (1995)
- Impromptus (1996)
- La sagesse des Modernes, written with Luc Ferry (1998)
- Pensées sur la connaissance (1998)
- L'être temps (1999)
- Pensées sur Dieu (1999)
- Présentation de la philosophie (2000)
- Dictionnaire philosophique (2001)
- A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life (2001)
- A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues (2003)
- Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004)
- The Little Book of Philosophy (2005)
- The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality (2007)
The latter book's viewpoint is somewhat similar to that in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature," for both describe a God-free mystical experience. Comte-Sponville found that his "ego had vanished," Emerson that "all mean egotism vanishes."
(Listen to an interview in which Comte-Sponville speaks of Love.)
(See entry for New Atheism.)
