Helvétius
Americannoun
noun
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“I disapprove of what you say,” he is said to have written to the philosopher Claude Helvétius, “but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
From Time ● May 5, 2015
The men of the Revolution phrased that idea each in his own way, according as they had been influenced, primarily, by Rousseau, Helvétius, or Condorcet.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
Twenty years before, the French philosopher Helvétius, after an experience of Jesuit persecution and Court disfavour in France, made a quaint proposal for re-organising the whole discussion of moral and political questions.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
We have seen that the method of the Utopian Socialist does not in the least differ from that of d'Holbach or Helvétius, those champions of the revolutionary French bourgeoisie.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich
She was the widow of Helvétius, the philosopher, who had left her a handsome fortune, amassed by him when one of the farmers-general.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
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