Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.
13 Facts About Raymond Aron
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Raymond Aron is known for his lifelong friendship, sometimes fractious, with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Raymond Aron is generally referred to as a conservative liberal or right-wing liberal.
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Raymond Aron wrote extensively on a wide range of other topics.
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Raymond Aron was a rational humanist, and a leader among those who did not embrace existentialism.
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Raymond Aron took first place in the agregation of philosophy in 1928, the year Sartre failed the same exam.
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Raymond Aron had been teaching social philosophy at the University of Toulouse for only a few weeks when World War II began; he joined the Armee de l'Air.
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Raymond Aron was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960 and an International member of the American Philosophical Society in 1966.
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Raymond Aron died of a heart attack in Paris on 17 October 1983.
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In Berlin, Raymond Aron witnessed the rise to power of the Nazi Party and developed an aversion to all totalitarian systems.
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Raymond Aron always promoted an "immoderately moderate" form of liberalism which accepted a mixed economy as the normal economic model of the age.
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Raymond Aron is the author of books on Karl Marx and on Carl von Clausewitz.
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Raymond Aron argues that Max Weber's claim that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force does not apply to the relationship between states.