Philosopher
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Overview
Claude Adrien Helvétius (; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, Freemason, and littérateur.
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Philosophers who discussed Claude Adrien Helvétius
- William Godwin
- Karl Marx
- Michel Onfray
- Baron d'Holbach
- Cesare Beccaria
- Voltaire
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Jeremy Bentham
- Louis Althusser
- Sylvain Maréchal
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
Ideas Claude Adrien Helvétius discusses
- Egalitarianism
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Atheism
- John Stuart Mill
- Isaiah Berlin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jesuits
- John Locke
- Karl Marx
- Mathematician
- Baron d'Holbach
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- Joseph de Maistre
- Authoritarianism
- Paris
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Poet
- Switzerland
- Thomas Hobbes
- Age of Enlightenment
- Utilitarianism
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.