Andre Comte-Sponville

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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.

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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.)

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