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    Claude Adrien Helvétius (/hɛlˈviːʃəs/; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur...
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  • sometimes written Helvetius, author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771)...
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    philosopher Helvétius in 1751. By the time he died twenty years later, the couple had amassed a vast fortune, and with it Madame Helvétius maintained her...
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  • include: Julien Offray de La Mettrie Denis Diderot Baron d'Holbach Claude Adrien Helvétius Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis Jacques-André Naigeon Atheism during...
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    physician, Jean-Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1685–1755). The philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) was a son of the latter. Helvetius died 29 August...
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  • Soame Jenyns William Johnson Fox: 172–173  Anthony Hammond: 198  Claude Adrien Helvétius Baron d'Holbach Francis Hutcheson Edmund Law James Mill John Neal: 367–369 ...
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  • series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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    logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–71): French philosopher whose ethical and social views helped...
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    series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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  • Diderot (1713–1784). Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762). Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771). Utilitarian. Etienne de Condillac (1715–1780). Jean...
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    these new ideas, becoming a proponent of atheism, the writings of Claude Adrien Helvétius, and other French materialists. When Adam and Maria Dorothea Struensee...
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    de Pompignan, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1790) February 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771) February 27 – Mateo Aimerich, Spanish...
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    intended to summarize in her own words Voltaire's attitude towards Claude Adrien Helvétius and his controversial book De l'esprit, but her first-person expression...
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  • series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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    by French philosophes like Denis Diderot, Baron d'Holbach and Claude Adrien Helvétius. The idea began to be incorporated in political theory both in...
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    French materialism of the late 18th century, including Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvétius and d'Holbach Friedrich Engels' analysis of the working class,...
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    Claude Heim (1912–2002), French long jumper Claude Helffer (1922–2004), French pianist Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), French philosopher Claude...
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  • series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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  • 1731 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672) 1771 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715) 1780 – John Fothergill...
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  • (1711–1776) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Denis Diderot (1713–1784) Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) Baron d'Holbach...
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  • Guitton Jean-Marie Guyau Pierre Hadot Élie Halévy Octave Hamelin Claude-Adrien Helvétius Michel Henry Josef Hoëné-Wronski Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Pierre-Daniel...
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  • series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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    series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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    Jean Claude Adrien Helvetius (1685–1755, father of Claude-Adrien Helvétius) of its power in the treatment of dysentery.[citation needed] Helvetius was...
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    series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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  • Diderot (1713–1784), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), German-French Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789), and other...
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    Part 2, Ch. XXI; thus alluding to liberty in its negative sense). Claude Adrien Helvétius expressed the following point clearly: "The free man is the man...
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    with the French materialists—Paul Holbach and Claude Adrien Helvétius. Plekhanov defended both Helvètius and Holbach from attacks by Friedrich Albert Lange...
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  • series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Mozi Shantideva David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius Cesare Beccaria William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley...
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