Background
Gueroult, Martial was born on December 15, 1891 in Le Havre, France.
Gueroult, Martial was born on December 15, 1891 in Le Havre, France.
L’École Normale Supérieure, 1913-1920. /r»fl*; Leibniz, J. G. Fichte, Léon Robin and Ginette Dreyfus.
Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, 1929-1945, Sorbonne, 1945-1945L the Collège de France, 1951-1963.
Gueroult was one of the most distinguished and Prolific twentieth-century French historians of Philosophy. His early interests were in Greek Philosophy. After 1926, however, modem philos°phy became and thereafter remained the main focus of his researches. He introduced an original approach to the history of philosophy which he called la méthode structures, according to which each particular philosophy is ideally represented as a systematic whole unfolding itself like a wellconstructed plot in which every phase or step follows from its predecessor with a rational •nevitability. Thus Gueroult maintained, in a way reminiscent of Hegel, that the doctrinal content of a particular philosophy is inseparable •tom its demonstrative procedure. As against Hegel, however, he affirmed the irreducible Plurality of philosophical systems. He held that each new philosophy presents a unique construchon of reality; each has an independent value of Us own and cannot be properly understood simply ln terms of the ‘dialectical’ relations in which it stands to other philosophies. Gueroult was renowned not only as a historian °1 Philosophy but also as an extraordinarily gifted teacher who could speak extempore in a style that Was ready for print.