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1792–1867 France

Victor Cousin (French: [kuzɛ̃]; 28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism.

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Religion must exist for the sake of religion, morality for the sake of morality, just as art exists for the sake of art...Beauty can be the path to neither utility, nor goodness, nor holiness; it leads only to itself.

India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.

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