Project Gutenberg 2008-02-02 Public domain in the USA. 122 Morley, John 1838 1923 Morley, Viscount Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet Reading ease score: 50.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. Produced by Paul Murray, René Anderson Benitz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet" by John Morley is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. This essay focuses on the life and philosophical contributions of Marquis de Condorcet, a significant figure during the French Revolution. The work explores Condorcet's thoughts on the perfectibility of human nature and highlights his role as a thinker amid the tumult of revolutionary France. The opening of the essay delves into Condorcet’s background, noting his survival through a pivotal period of revolutionary upheaval, unlike other notable contemporaries like Voltaire and Rousseau. It describes Condorcet as an intellectually driven yet politically isolated figure, who advocated for both social reform and rationality in governance. With insights into Condorcet’s early influences and relationships with other philosophers, the text sets the stage for a nuanced exploration of his contributions to human rights and the advancement of social thought in the unfolding context of revolutionary France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794 CT Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics 206097 205949 2025-02-10T08:01:06.377806 2023-09-11T05:07:39.868573 text/html text/html 206686 2008-02-02T10:16:38 text/html; charset=utf-8 72433 2008-02-02T10:17:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 166227 2025-02-10T08:01:14.311263 application/epub+zip 166773 2025-02-10T08:01:10.325807 application/epub+zip 129646 2025-02-10T08:01:08.893814 application/epub+zip 369627 2025-02-10T08:01:17.074341 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 351383 2025-02-10T08:01:13.386283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304188 2022-09-11T10:17:37.941128 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 169065 2025-02-10T08:01:05.895811 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 168856 2008-02-02T10:16:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 65571 2008-02-02T10:17:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 168645 2008-02-02T10:17:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 65373 2008-02-02T10:17:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 168641 2008-02-02T10:17:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 65202 2008-02-02T10:17:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22584 2025-02-10T08:01:17.204254 application/rdf+xml 20198 2025-02-10T08:01:09.462808 image/jpeg 4337 2025-02-10T08:01:09.178814 image/jpeg 162823 2025-02-10T08:01:06.394817 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia