Victor Delbos

Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died in July 1916 as a result of an infectious myocarditis brought on by pleurisy. Maurice Blondel, a close friend, wrote an obituary account of Delbos and saw various posthumous publications through the press.^[1]

He wrote on Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche and Kant. A series of lectures on post-Kantian philosophy, which Delbos viewed as shaped by contingent psychological and social factors rather than through the unfolding of some internal logic, were published posthumously and later (1942) collected in a single volume.^[2]

Works

• Le problème moral dans la philosophie de Spinoza et dans l'histoire du spinozisme, Paris: Alcan, 1893
• La Philosophie pratique de Kant, 1905
• Le spinozisme : cours professé à la Sorbonne en 1912-1913, 1916
• La philosophie française, 1919
• Étude de la philosophie de Malebranche, 1924
• De Kant aux postkantiens, 1942

References

1. Oliva Blanchette, Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life, 2010, p.30-76
2. Cristina Chimisso, Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s, 2008, p.48

External links

• Works by or about Victor Delbos at Internet Archive
• Works by or about Victor Delbos in libraries (WorldCat catalog)