Andre Comte-Sponville is one of the most important--and certainly the most popular--of the new wave of young French philosophers. Now in his early forties, he teaches at the Sorbonne & is the author of five highly acclaimed scholarly books of classical philosophy as well as the widely popular "A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues", which spent 14 months on the French bestseller list & is being translated into 19 languages. Comte-Sponville lives in Paris.