Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-578-01666-5
- EAN: 9780578016665
- Produktnummer: 4774899
- Verlag: G. Langer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 434 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 663 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 663
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