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Place of Birth: Beaumont-le-Roger, Normandy, France
About Marc Sautet
- Marc Sautet (25 February 1947 – 3 March 1998) was a French writer, teacher, translator (mainly of Nietzsche), and philosopher.
- He was a Doctor of Philosophy (B.
- Litt.) at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
- Sautet was a former Trotskyist who however edited two books on the German philosopher and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Marc Sautet emphasised that Nietzsche was a precursor of his time.Sautet branched out from his normal academic career as a lecturer by giving philosophy consultation services to businessmen in the bourgeois district of Le Marais in Paris around 1990 to 1991.
- He opened up his "cabinet de philosophie" charging consultation fees of some 200 Francs an hour, an amount similar to a professional psychoanalyst of the time.
- This was not a successful enterprise for Sautet, however it did lead him to setting up informal philosophising for the ordinary citizen in Parisian cafes starting in 1992 (the Café Philosophique).
- He called this movement "café for Socrates," which became the title of one of his books (1995).Sautet seemed to have been a quite likeable person that influenced others considerably.
- He wished his philosophy cafes to be for all people (parleurs de la taverne)) and to encourage freedom of expression regardless of academic background.
- He did not want power, money, nor religion to influence the discussions.
- He wished to revive the Socratic method at the meetings.
- He claimed, I help my clients to structure their thoughts.
- I am there to nourish their doubts and pose the right questions, not to supply the answers.Sautet considered his work, after Freud, as the practice of a sort of medicine (philotherapy).
- He desired to cure the European civilization of moral deterioration.
- He followed with passion international events, especially in Europe.
- Sautet wanted to bring people's everyday problems and ideas to birth.
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