Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius ; French: ; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771 was a French philosopher, freemason as alive as littérateur.

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A cause called De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation, found among his manuscripts, was published after his death. There is a ready edition of the working of Helvétius, published at Paris, 1818.

For an estimate of his make and his place among the philosophers of the 18th century see A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius 1894; A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius Milan, 1889; Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus Stuttgart, 1896; L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius Verona, 1902; A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre 1907; Isaiah Berlin, "Helvétius" in Freedom as well as Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed. Henry Hardy, Oxford, 2002, pp. 11–26.