Editing Émile Saisset

{{Short description|French philosopher (1814–1863)}}
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'''Émile Edmond Saisset''' (16 September 1814{{snd}}27 December 1863) was a French philosopher.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last= Schwartz |first= Daniel B. |author-link= |date= 26 Feb 2012|title= The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kyE0bBrwJ9YC|access-date= 20 March 2022|location= Princeton, New Jersey| publisher= Princeton University Press  | page= 225| isbn= 978-1-400-84226-1}}</ref>

==Life==
Émile Edmond Saisset was born at [[Montpellier]]. He studied philosophy at the [[École Normale Supérieure]], and carried on the eclectic tradition of his master along with [[Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien|Ravaisson]] and [[Jules Simon]]. In 1842 he was professor of philosophy at [[Caen]], at the École Normale in [[Paris, France|Paris]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Saisset, Émile Edmond|volume=24|page=53}}</ref> He later moved on to the College de France in 1843. He  became a member  of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in 1862.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |last= Manns |first= James W.  |author-link= |date= 1 Jan 1994|title= Reid and his French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=M-V5DwAAQBAJ|access-date= 20 March 2022|location= Leiden, Netherlands| publisher= BRILL | page= 176| isbn= 978-9-004-24698-0 }}</ref> Saisset, known as "fashionable psychologist",<ref>{{cite book |last= Pickering |first= Mary |author-link= |date= 14 September 2009|title= Auguste Comte: Volume 2: An Intellectual Biography| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UfE4PlvlcvkC|access-date= 20 March 2022|location= Cambridge | publisher= Cambridge University Press| page= 250| isbn= 978-0-521-51325-8}}</ref> was associated with the Eclectic school of [[Victor Cousin]].<ref name="auto"/>

Saisset's chief works are a monograph on [[Aenesidemus]] the [[scepticism|Sceptic]] (1840); ''Le Scepticisme: Ænésidème, Pascal, Kant'' (1845); a translation of [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]] (1843); ''Précurseurs et disciples de Descartes'' (1862); ''Discours de la philosophie de Leibniz'' (1857) (a work which had great influence on the progress of thought in France); ''Essai de philosophie religieuse'' (1859); ''Critique et histoire de la philosophie'' (1865).<ref name="EB1911"/>

His untimely death in 1863, "a year after his appointment to the Sorbonne, surely prevented his literary output from being more formidable."<ref name="auto1"/>

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