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Title: historical picture of progress of the human mind (1794), originally in French. Author: mathematician, scientist, atheist, friend to Voltaire and elected to the French academy Condorcet wrote this during the French Revolution and died after the book (possibly the first of a series of planned books) was finished in prison at 51 years old.
Condorcet. Sketch for an historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Translated by June Barraclough, with an introduction by Stuart Hampshire. (Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1955. Pp. xvi + 202. 12s. 6d.) - Volume 31 Issue 117
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- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet
It is argued that the evolution of life on earth has been marked by a series of transitions to greater complexity, the last being from primate to human societies, which comprises two phases: the first defined by increases in the capacity of the human brain/mind to structurally integrate causal inferences and selectively apply them to construct ...
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The French term ‘facultés’ also presents a question: it can refer, as in English, to capabilities with which an individual is physically endowed (e.g., sight or operations of the mind) or to powers arising from their exercise. I have used ‘faculties’ for the former, ‘capacities’ for the latter.
Condorcet’s Sketch for an Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind was written in the last few months of his life when on the run, having been condemned to death in the wake of the French Revolution. In hiding as he was, and in fear of his life, he found himself, rather than writing another polemic, or trying to justify his ...
