Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
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Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
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Abstract
If man can predict, almost with certainty, those appearances of which he understands the laws; if, even when the laws are unknown to him, experience or the past enables him to foresee, with considerable probability, future appearances; why should we suppose it a chimerical undertaking to delineate, with some degree of truth, the picture of the future destiny of mankind from the results of its history? The only foundation of faith in the natural sciences is the principle, that the general laws, known or unknown, which regulate the phenomena of the universe, are regular and constant
Contents
- The Enlightenment
- Kant and the Redemption of Enlightenment
- Rousseau and Radicalization
- From Locke to Jefferson
- English Bill of Rights
- John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government
- John Locke: An Essay on Human Understanding
- Charles de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws
- Voltaire: Candide
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
- Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary
- Catherine II of Russia: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners
- Denis Diderot: Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville
- American Declaration of Independence
- Immanuel Kant: “What Is Enlightenment?”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
- Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population
- David Ricardo: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation