Philosopher
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
Overview
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (French: [etjɛn gabʁjɛl mɔʁɛli]; 1717–1778) was a French utopian thinker, philosopher and novelist. An otherwise "obscure tax official", and teacher, Morelly wrote two books on education, a critique of Montesquieu and The Code of Nature, which was published anonymously in France in 1755. This book, initially attributed to philosophes including Rousseau and Diderot, criticised contemporary society, postulated a social order without avarice, and proposed a constitution intended to lead to an egalitarian society without property, marriage, church or police.
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Ideas Étienne-Gabriel Morelly discusses
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Karl Marx
- Political philosophy
- Charles Fourier
- Louis Blanc
- Socialism
- Kingdom of France
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Philosophes
- Friedrich Engels
- Montesquieu
- Denis Diderot
- Communism
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.