Pierre-Jean Labarrière (June 21, 1931[1] – July 12, 2018[2]) was a French Jesuit and philosopher.
Pierre-Jean Labarrière was born on June 21, 1931. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1949 and became ordained as a Catholic priest in 1963.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Pontifical Gregorian University,[3] then docteur d'État in philosophy (1980),[4] he was professor of philosophy at the Centre Sèvres Faculty of Philosophy, before teaching philosophy from 1983 at the Catholic University of Paris.
His main non-Christian inspirations were Plato, Kant and, above all, Hegel.[5]
Throughout his life, he worked in collaboration with Gwendoline Jarczyk, in particular on Master Eckhart and Hegel.[6]
He died on July 12, 2018.[7]