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Cargando... Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795)por Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. IBB-6 One of the most eloquent & historically important formulations of the idea of continuous progression - or 'perfectibility' - for the human race. All credibly based on growing collective knowledge, & on the well-coordinated interaction between scientific research & public education. Condorcet played an essential role, both intellectually & politically, during the French revolution. Outlawed by the extreme revolutionaries, Condorcet wrote this book in hiding, only a few weeks before his very mysterious death in a jail. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Perhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future "emancipated from its chains" and led by "the progress of reason" and "the establishment of liberty." Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an "elate and giddy optimist," Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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