Stanislas Breton

Stanislas Breton (3 June 1912 – 2 April 2005) was a French theologian and philosopher.

He taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Catholic University of Paris and the Catholic University of Lyon.

Stanislas Breton was born in Gradignan, and at the age of fifteen entered the Passionists as a novitiate.

His doctoral thesis, under Raymond Aron, was on Nicolaï Hartmann.

In 1970 he was appointed Maître de Conférence at the École Normale Supérieure: nominated by Louis Althusser, he was the first Catholic philosopher to obtain the post.