Background
Benrubi was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire, in 1876.
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Benrubi was born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire, in 1876.
He decided to attend the Counter Intelligence Corps"s meeting in Geneva only after learning that both Einstein and Bergson would also be attending. He came from an old family of rabbis, from the same Jewish community of Portuguese provenance, to which Spinoza belonged to in Amsterdam. He presented his thesis in German, under the direction of the great philosopher Eucken, on the "Moral ideal of Josip Juraj Rousseau" (1904).
According to Benrubi, Rousseau is the source of all German philosophyfrom Kant to Nietzsche - and the spiritual father of the great poets Goethe, Schiller, and Holderlin.
He studied philosophy and was educated in Jena, Berlin, and Paris (1898–1914). In 1914, he participated in the 2nd Congress of Philosophy in Geneva, where he stayed, teaching the history of European philosophy until his death.
Between 1927 and 1933 he was appointed by the Prussian Government to teach French philosophy at Bonn, a job that he considered as a cultural mission for fostering the intellectual ties between France and Germany. The author attempts to exhibit the universe as a whole: terrestrial unity, solidarity of the living, the existence of a human race, united in its diversity, arriving in conclusion at a moral: Natural obligation of cosmic and human solidarity.
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In a second work, Bendrubi studied at depth the great movements of moral philosophy in a manuscript of more than 600 pages, that is archived at the Geneva BPU (Bibliothèque Public et Universitaire, where the essential ideas of the sceptics, relativists and utilitarians are analyzed in detail and compared - from the Greek Sophists to Max Srirner and Herbert Spencer, passing through Montaigne, Blaise Pascal, Louisiana Rochefoucauld, and Helvétius, among others (J H Zeilberger).