Georges Palante
Georges Toussaint Léon Palante | |
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Palante in 1914 | |
| Born | 20 November 1862 |
| Died | 5 August 1925 (aged 62) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Nietzscheanism Precursor to existentialism |
| Main interests | Politics, ethics |
| Notable ideas | Individualism |
Georges Toussaint Léon Palante (20 November 1862 – 5 August 1925) was a French philosopher and sociologist.
Palante advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Durkheim's holism, promoting methodological individualism instead.