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Jean Buridan

1295 - 1361

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Jean Buridan (; French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French scholastic philosopher. Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle. Buridan sowed the seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia and an important development in the history of medieval science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Buridan is the 178th most popular philosopher (down from 165th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from France (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean Buridan is most famous for his theory on the will. He believed that the will is free and can choose its own course of action.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean Buridan ranks 178 out of 1,267. Before him are Jakob Böhme, Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, Posidonius, Marquis de Condorcet, and Hippias. After him are Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, Cesare Beccaria, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Claude Adrien Helvétius.

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Among people born in 1295, Jean Buridan ranks 2. Before him is Saint Roch. After him are Isabella of France, Nicephorus Gregoras, Henry Suso, Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria, and Nicholas Orsini. Among people deceased in 1361, Jean Buridan ranks 1. After him are Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Philippe de Vitry, Johannes Tauler, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, Ingeborg of Norway, María de Padilla, Blanche of Bourbon, An-Nasir Hasan, and Giovanni Dolfin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Buridan ranks 394 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Arp (1886), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Ève Curie (1904), Marin Mersenne (1588), Pierre Bonnard (1867), and Charles Messier (1730). After him are Maurice Leblanc (1864), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Raymond Kopa (1931), Odilon Redon (1840), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), and Louis IV of France (920).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean Buridan ranks 17. Before him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743). After him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), and Pierre Bayle (1647).

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