CONDORCET - AN INTELLECTUAL IN THE TIMES OF REVOLUTION

• Authors: Dethloff U
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The 200th anniversary of French Revolution is an occasion to remind a philosopher who died for his ideas in the revolutionary reality. He believed in human mind's development leading to happiness. Coming close to democracy, Condorcet presented liberal views e.g. on women's role in the society. The author draws attention to a duality between his belief in intellectual elite and the fear of population's rule on the one hand and democratic principles on the other. His attempts on the political scene brought him to defeat. Today Condorcet seems a political and moral conscience of revolution since he was able to notice a vital trigger of progress in it.

Keywords

EN

CONDORCET; REVOLUTION (FRANCE)

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Humanistyczny
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 3(390)
• Pages: 39-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dethloff U

• U. Dethloff, Universität des Saarlandes, FR 4.2 Romanistik, Geb. 11, 66123 Saarbrücken, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA0033816