# André Comte-Sponville

- Id: `andre_comte_sponville`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/andre-comte-sponville/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `b83d18d0a41c3c088c20ebbd31321fd325380c769ee3a7cf058afd3504c556f6`

## Summary

A French materialist and humanist philosopher, Comte-Sponville examines virtue, time, love and a spirituality that asks for neither God nor an afterlife.

## Overview

Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 13 September 2026.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1952–present",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "74 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Contemporary materialism, humanism and ethics",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Contemporary materialism, humanism and ethics"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 2026,
    "display": "2026 CE",
    "reason": "Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 13 September 2026."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 2085,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "born 12 March 1952",
        "description": "Birthplace and a recurring setting for study, teaching, publishing and public philosophy.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Comte-Sponville"
    },
    {
        "name": "École normale supérieure, Paris",
        "period": "from 1972",
        "description": "Documented place of higher study on rue d'Ulm.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.institutdiderot.fr/author/andrecomtesponville/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Panthéon-Sorbonne University",
        "period": "1983",
        "description": "Doctoral work in philosophy at Paris I.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.institutdiderot.fr/author/andrecomtesponville/"
    }
]
```