Gustave Belot (7 August 1859 – 21 December 1929) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at Strasbourg,[1] the son of a professor in the faculty of letters at Lyons.
[2] 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.
[1] Informed by Durkheimian sociology, he was a theorist of collectively-held 'lay morality', which was rational and based upon general interest.