Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (; 26 September 1862 – 16 June 1916) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.
Biography Delbos was born on 26 September 1862 in Figeac. He 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 on 16 June 1916, aged 53, in Paris, 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.Oliva Blanchette, Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life, 2010, p.30-76
Delbos was the father of the violinist and composer Claire Delbos. In turn, he was the father-in-law of Olivier Messiaen.
Work 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.Cristina Chimisso, Writing the history of the mind: philosophy and science in France, 1900 to 1960s, 2008, p.48
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
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