Background
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée was born at La Poueze on the 18th of October 1838.
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Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée was born at La Poueze on the 18th of October 1838.
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycees of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1872 he was elected master of com ferences at the Ecole Normale, and was made doctor of philosophy in recognition of his two treatises, Platonis Hippias Minor sive Socratica contra liberum arbitrium argumenta and La Liberte et le determinisme. The strain of the next three years' continuous work undermined his health and his eyesight, and he was compelled to retire from his professorship. During these years he had published works on Plato and Socrates and a history of philosophy (1875).
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During these years Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée had published works on Plato and Socrates and a history of philosophy (1875). But after his retirement he further developed his philosophical position, a speculative eclecticism through which he endeavoured to reconcile metaphysical idealism with the naturalistic and mechanical standpoint of science.
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée was a member of the Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople and Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
Fouillee's wife, who by a previous marriage was the mother of the poet and philosopher Jean Marie Guyau (1854- 1888), is well known, under the pseudonym of "G. Bruno", as the author of educational books for children.