Background
Hannequin, Arthur Edouard was born on October 27, 1856 in Pargny sur Saulx, Marne, France.
Hannequin, Arthur Edouard was born on October 27, 1856 in Pargny sur Saulx, Marne, France.
Paris, agrégation 1882, doctorate 1895. Corresponding membership of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 21 December 1901.
Chargé de Cours, Lyon, 1885. Professor of History of Science, Lyon, 1891.
argued this thesis on the neo-Kantian grounds that atomism was subjectively necessary, although it contained contradictions which he attempted to repair by substituting a type of metaphysical atomism borrowing something from Leibniz. Unlike most contemporary neoKantians he accepted the real existence of things in themselves. Like many of his contemporaries he held that metaphysics should be based on a critical analysis of the philosophy of science. His philosophy seems to be an attempt to reconcile Kant and Leibniz, in Couturat’s view (1896-1897) to the disadvantage of Kant. His attitude to religion seems to have been heavily influenced by Spinoza, but was influential on younger liberal Catholics among his students. His output was limited by lifelong ill health.