French philosopher
Gallic intellectual tradition
A French philosopher is a thinker from or associated with France's rich intellectual tradition.
The phrase often evokes Enlightenment figures like Voltaire and Rousseau, existentialists like Sartre and Camus, or postmodernists like Foucault and Derrida.
Every undergraduate has to read at least one French philosopher.
- cogito ergo sumThought confirms being
- Blaise PascalSeventeenth-century French mathematician-theologian
- social contractAgreement exchanging freedom for order
- tabula rasaUnmarked mental starting point
- PostmodernismMovement questioning objective truth
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