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Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando

Summary
Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, born Joseph Marie Degérando (29 February 1772 in Lyon, France – 10 November 1842 in Paris), was a French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher of Italian descent. He is most remembered for his 1804 book Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, considérés relativement aux principes des connaissances humaines (Comparative History of Philosophical Systems, Considered in Relation to the Principles of Human Knowledge) as well as his 1820 study of benevolent activity, Le visiteur du pauvre (The visitor to the poor). He influenced Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson who used his philosophical framework extensively in support of his own first book Nature. Des Signes et de l'Art de penser considérés dans leurs rapports mutuels, 4 vol., 1799-1800 Texte en ligne 1 2 3 4 De la Génération des connaissances humaines, mémoire qui a partagé le prix de l'Académie de Berlin sur la question suivante : Démontrer d'une manière incontestable l'origine de toutes nos connaissances..., 1802. New edition in Corpus des œuvres de philosophie en langue française, Paris, Fayard, 1990 Considération sur les diverses méthodes à suivre dans l'observation des peuples sauvages, 1800, engl. The observation of savage peoples, translated from the French by F. C. T. Moore, with a preface by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1969. Le Visiteur du pauvre, 1824. New Edition : Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 1989. Texte en ligne, engl. visitor of the poor translated from the French of the baron Degerando ; by a Lady of Boston ; with and introduction by Joseph Tuckerman. Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1832. Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, relativement aux principes des connaissances humaines, 4 vol., 1822 Texte en ligne 1 2 3 4 Du Perfectionnement moral, ou de l'Éducation de soi-même, 2 vol., 1824, engl. Self-education ; or, The means and art of moral progress, translated from the French of M. le Baron Degerando by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
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