Léger Marie Deschamps, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French philosopher
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Place of Birth: Rennes, Brittany, France
About Léger Marie Deschamps
- Léger Marie Deschamps (10 January 1716 – 19 April 1774), Benedictine monk, known under his Benedictine name of Dom Deschamps, was a French philosopher and utopian socialist, who taught a form of modified Spinozism.
- During his lifetime he published very little, but corresponded with most of the leaders of the French Enlightenment.
- Rediscovered in 1862, he was hailed as a precursor of Hegel.
- His metaphysical system anticipates Hegel by asserting that truth includes contradictory elements, and he had much to say about how the concept Being collapses into that of Nothing.
- There was a further revival of interest in his work after 1974, and his collected works were finally published in 1993.
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