Charles Secrétan

Charles Secretan (January 19, 1815 – January 21, 1895) was a Swiss philosopher. He was born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on 21 January 1895.

Charles Secrétan
Born	(1815-01-19)19 January 1815 Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	21 January 1895(1895-01-21) (aged 80) Lausanne, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Occupation(s)	Professor of philosophy at Lausanne and Neuchâtel
Known for	Founding/editing Revue Suisse

Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in Munich, he became a professor of philosophy at Lausanne (1838 to 1846), and later at Neuchâtel. In 1866 he returned to his old position at Lausanne.^[1]

In 1837 he founded, and for a time edited the Revue Suisse. The object of his writing was to build up a rational, philosophical religion to reconcile the ultimate bases of Christianity with the principles of metaphysical philosophy.^[1]

Works

• La Philosophie de la liberté (1848)
• La Raison et le Christianisme (1863)
• La Civilisation et les croyances (1887)
• Les Droits de l'Humanité (1890)
• Mon Utopie (1892)
• Preface to Le problème de l'immortalité by Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff (1892)

References

1. Chisholm 1911.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Secrétan, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 571. This work in turn cites:
  • François T. Pillon, La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan (Paris 1898; reprinted 2006)

External links

• Works by Charles Secrétan at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Charles Secrétan at the Internet Archive