Gustave Belot
Gustave Belot was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at Strasbourg, the son of a professor in the faculty of letters at Lyons. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1878, taking the philosophy agrégation in 1881, and becoming a provincial philosophy instructor at Brest and elsewhere. In 1899 he succeeded Lucien Lévy-Bruhl as professor of philosophy at the lycée Louis-le-Grand. In 1911 he was appointed Inspector of the Paris Academy, and in 1913 he became Inspector-General of Secondary Instruction. He died in Paris on 21 December 1929. Informed by Durkheimian sociology, he was a theorist of collectively-held 'lay morality', which was rational and based upon general interest.
Gustave Belot is the brother of Émile Belot, engineer, inventor and astronomer, and the great great uncle of Pierre Pincemaille, musician and organist.Works
- Études sur la philosophie morale, au XIXe siècle: leçons professées á l'École des hautes études sociales, 1904.
- Études de morale positive, 1907.
- Morales et religions: leçons professées á l'École des hautes études sociales, 1909.
- La conscience française et la guerre, 1921.
