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Georges Toussaint Léon Palante (November 20 1862 – August 5 1925) was a French philosopher and sociologist.He advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Durkheim’s holism promoting methodological individualism instead.

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birth date
1862-11-20
birth place
Pas-de-Calais, France
death date
1925-08-05
death place
Saint-Brieuc, France
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Albert Camus, Renzo Novatore, Jean Grenier, Louis Guilloux, Michel Onfray
influenced by
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Max Stirner
main interest
Ethics, Politics
notableIdea
Individualism
philosophicalSchool
Existentialism, Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

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