Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher and humanist

Written by Harry Burrows Acton

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Born:: September 17, 1743, Ribemont, France

Died:: March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine (aged 50)

Political Affiliation:: Girondin

Notable Works:: “Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind”

Subjects Of Study:: probability

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Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (born September 17, 1743, Ribemont, France—died March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French philosopher of the Enlightenment and advocate of educational reform and women’s rights. He was one of the major Revolutionary formulators of the ideas of progress, or the indefinite perfectibility of humankind. He was descended from the ancient family of Caritat, who took their title from Condorcet, a town in Dauphiné. He was educated at the Jesuit college in Reims and at the College of Navarre in Paris, where he showed his first promise as a mathematician. In 1769 he became a ...(100 of 1320 words)

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