Georges Toussaint Léon Palante 20 November 1862 – 5 August 1925 was the French philosopher in addition to sociologist.
Palante advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Friedrich Nietzsche & Arthur Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Durkheim's holism, promoting methodological individualism instead.
A thoroughgoing Individualist, he admired Friedrich Nietzsche and showed early interest in the construct of Sigmund Freud. His thinking is also critical towards a mass "herd instinct", which he thought oppresses and prevents individuals from developing fully. However, he did non oppose social networks and insisted that his philosophy did non seek to destroy society for the benefit of the individual, but to assistance to establish new networks of social interaction. In sociology, he objected to the holistic utility example espoused by Émile Durkheim.