Emmanuel Mounier 1905 – 1950
Emmanuel Mounier (1905 – 1950) was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy and Christian Philosophy.
Emmanuel Mounier was a French Catholic philosopher and the founder of the personalist movement and its journal Esprit, founded in 1932. Drawing on Bergson, Maritain, and the Christian existentialism of Marcel, he articulated a third way between liberal individualism and totalitarian collectivism that took the unique person, irreducible to economic or political function, as the center of philosophical and political reflection. His Personalism, A Personalist Manifesto, and Be Not Afraid shaped Catholic social thought in the mid twentieth century and contributed to the resistance milieu under the Vichy regime. His influence carried into Latin American liberation thought and into postwar Christian democracy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy, Christian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Emmanuel Mounier:
“The person is not a thing among things, but a presence among presences.”
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Attributed to Emmanuel Mounier:
“To exist personally is to communicate.”
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Attributed to Emmanuel Mounier:
“Personalism rejects both individualism and collectivism.”
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Attributed to Emmanuel Mounier:
“Each person is an absolute over which no other has any title.”
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Attributed to Emmanuel Mounier:
“The Christian must be in history without being of it.”
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- When did Emmanuel Mounier live?
- Emmanuel Mounier was born in 1905 and died in 1950.
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- Emmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Emmanuel Mounier was associated with Continental Philosophy and Christian Philosophy.
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- Emmanuel Mounier was a French Catholic philosopher and the founder of the personalist movement and its journal Esprit, founded in 1932.
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