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Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, (born June 5, 1757, Cosnac, Fr.—died May 5, 1808, Rueil-Malmaison), French philosopher and physiologist noted for Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme (1802; “Relations of the Physical and the Moral in Man”), which explained all of reality, including the psychic, mental, and moral aspects of man, in ...

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis 1, né le 5 juin 1757 au manoir de Salagnac, à Cosnac ( Limousin ), et mort le 5 mai 1808 dans le hameau de Rueil, à Seraincourt, est un médecin, physiologiste, philosophe et député français.

(1757–1808) Pierre-Jean Georges Cabanis was, with Comte Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, the leader of the Id é ologues. A precocious student of philosophy and of the classics, he chose medicine as a career, but he never practiced.

Pierre Jean George Cabanis (1757–1808), French physiologist. Pierre Jean George Cabanis (June 5, 1757 – May 5, 1808), was a French physiologist who pioneered experiential philosophy. His ideas were formed in the context of the French Revolution, which wanted to set aside the old ideas of servitude to priests and an absolute monarch, and ...

Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges ( b. Cosnac, Corrèze, France, 5 June 1757; d. Rueil, near Paris, France, 5 May 1808), philosophy, medicine, history and sociology of medicine. Cabanis’s father was a landed proprietor who was interested in agricultural innovations and experiments.

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757–1808) is a bit of an oddity, as a philosoph - ical figure1. He was part of a group that dedicated itself to concrete sciences and positive facts rather than speculation2. Trained in medicine, Cabanis himself was deeply engaged in the political discussions of his time, publish-

In France, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757-1808), physician, philosopher, and one of the founders of modern psychophysiology, argued that the brain is the part of the body in which electricity is stored.

CABANIS, Pierre Jean George (1757–1808), a distinguished French physiologist, was born at Cosnac in 1757. His father was a lawyer of eminence, and chief magistrate of a district in the Lower Limousin. His education was at first entrusted to the priests, but at the age of ten he was transferred to the College of Brives.