Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Born	February 28, 1533; Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France
Died	September 13, 1592 (aged 59); Château de Montaigne, Guyenne, Kingdom of France
Period	French Renaissance
Genres	Essays, non-fiction
Subjects	Christianity, classics, education, human nature, morals, philosophy, science, truth
	Philosophy career
School	Conservatism (in politics); Counter-Reformation; Perspectivism; Scepticism;
	Influences Cato the Younger; Cicero; Horace; Heraclitus; Lucretius; Ovid; Plato; Plutarch; Seneca the Younger; Sextus Empiricus; Socrates; Virgil; ;
	Influenced Francis Bacon; Albert Camus; Pierre Charron; Charles Darwin; René Descartes; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Michel Foucault; Sigmund Freud; Edward Gibbon; David Hume; Jean-François Lyotard; Karl Marx; John Henry Newman; Friedrich Nietzsche; Blaise Pascal; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; José Saramago; Jean-Paul Sartre; William Shakespeare; Virginia Woolf; Gore Vidal; Voltaire; ;
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (28 February 1533 — 13 September 1592) was a French Renaissance man,^[2] statesman, and writer. He was a court official in the late Valois-Angoulême period of the Kingdom of France. Montaigne was the inventor of essay-writing and was one of the most important philosophers of the French Renaissance.

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↑ Miner, Robert (2017). "Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism". Nietzsche and Montaigne. pp. 43–93. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66745-4_3. ISBN 978-3-319-66744-7.
↑ Heck, Francis S. (1971). "The Meaning of Solitude in Montaigne's Essays". The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. 25 (3): 93–97. doi:10.2307/1346683. JSTOR 1346683.

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