PHILOSOPHER

Henri de Saint-Simon

1760 - 1825

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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (; French: [klod ɑ̃ʁi də ʁuvʁwa kɔ̃t də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He was a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon. Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism () that claimed that the needs of an industrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri de Saint-Simon is the 121st most popular philosopher (down from 115th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from France (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Philosopher.

Henri de Saint-Simon is most famous for his ideas of technocracy, where the economy would be controlled by a select group of scientists and engineers.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 121 out of 1,267. Before him are Meister Eckhart, Padmasambhava, Tertullian, William of Ockham, Ibn Taymiyyah, and Bonaventure. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Ramon Llull, Willard Van Orman Quine, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Marsilio Ficino, and Chanakya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 3. Before him are Hokusai, and Pope Leo XII. After him are Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, Akbar II, Camille Desmoulins, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Among people deceased in 1825, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 5. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Alexander I of Russia, Antonio Salieri, and Daniel D. Tompkins. After him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Eli Whitney, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Pauline Bonaparte, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, and Dmitry Bortniansky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 272 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles the Simple (879), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Philip I of France (1052), Francis de Sales (1567), and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755). After him are Jean Marais (1913), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), and Philip V of France (1293).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 12. Before him are Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), and Gilles Deleuze (1925). After him are Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709).

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