Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Author: Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0578016664

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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.

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship

Author: Marquis de Condorcet

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 152879110X

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“On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743–1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been the very embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Condorcet died in prison as a result of his attempting to escape French Revolutionary authorities. Within this essay, he argues that, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, rights are universal; and if that is indeed true, then they should apply to all adults—women included. A fascinating example of early feminist literature, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the history of feminism and its most notable proponents. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Condorcet
Condorcet

Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781781008119

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The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for doing so. Condorcet has had two quite unconnected reputations: as the doomed and foolish Enlightenment scholar, writing about the perfectibility of mankind while in hiding from the Terror that would shortly claim his own life; and as the incomprehensible founder of social choice, whose Essai of 1785 was not understood until the 1950s. This book shows that he was not so foolish, nor so incomprehensible, as even sympathetic treatments have made him sound.

Condorcet and Modernity
Condorcet and Modernity

Author: David Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-09-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1139456482

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The Marquis de Condorcet was one of the few Enlightenment ideologists to witness the French Revolution and participate as an elected politician at the centre of events during France's transition from monarchy to republic. Condorcet and Modernity explores the interaction between Condorcet's political theory, legislative pragmatism, public policy proposals and the management of change. David Williams examines key topics including rights, the civil order, the Church, the slave trade, women's civil rights, judicial reform, voting and representation, economics, monarchy, power and revolution. He explores the complex links between Condorcet as the visionary ideologist and Condorcet as the pragmatic legislator, and between Condorcet's concept of modernity - the application of 'social arithmetic' to government policies. Based on an extensive array of both printed and manuscript sources, this major contribution to enlightenment studies is a full treatment of Condorcet's politics.

The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women
The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

Author: marquis de Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-13

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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"The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women" by marquis de Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet, translated by Alice Drysdale Vickery, is a groundbreaking exploration of women's political rights. Condorcet's influential essay argues for the inclusion of women in political decision-making, challenging the prevailing notions of gender inequality. Vickery's translation preserves the essence of Condorcet's impassioned advocacy, providing readers with insights into the early discussions around gender equality and political participation.

Condorcet
Condorcet

Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Condorcet
Condorcet

Author: Guillaume Ansart

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 027105896X

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Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new political culture emerging in the United States constitute milestones in the history of French political thought and of French attitudes toward the United States. These remarkable texts, however, have not been available in modern editions or translations. This book presents first or new translations of all of Condorcet’s major writings on the United States, including an essay on the impact of the American Revolution on Europe; a commentary on the Federal Constitution, the first such commentary to be published in the Old World; and his Eulogy of Franklin, in which Condorcet paints a vivid picture of his recently deceased friend as the archetype of the new American man: self-made, practical, talented but modest, tolerant and free of prejudice—the embodiment of reason, common sense, and the liberal values of the Enlightenment.

Enlightenment Aberrations
Enlightenment Aberrations

Author: David W. Bates

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1501726811

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In Enlightenment Aberrations, David W. Bates shows that error was a complex, important, and by no means entirely negative concept in Enlightenment thought, one that had a decisive influence in revolutionary debates on political identity and national history. What can it mean to write a history of error? In Bates's view all philosophy, insofar as its project is the search for truth, begins in error. If truth is posited as a goal to be attained, not as a given of some kind, then error assumes a central role in the quest for truth. Going beyond both liberal celebrations and postmodern critiques of Enlightenment reason, Bates reveals just how crucial the problematic relation between human "wandering" and the mystery of truth was in eighteenth-century thought. The author draws on a wide range of Enlightenment thinkers, including Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Jean d'Alembert, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Charles Bonnet, showing how they wrestled with the "risk and promise" of error. He then demonstrates how the concept of error and its dialectical relationship to truth played out in the political culture of the French Revolution, particularly in the Terror. In the final chapters, Bates looks at the post-revolutionary transformations of the Enlightenment discourse of error and its subsequent history in modern European thought.

Tolerance
Tolerance

Author: Caroline Warman

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1783742038

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Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.

Condorcet: Political Writings
Condorcet: Political Writings

Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1107021014

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A revised translation of Condorcet's view of progress across history and his prophetic writings on women, slavery, freedom and revolution.