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CONDORCET - AN INTELLECTUAL IN THE TIMES OF REVOLUTION

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Dethloff U.
Przegląd Humanistyczny
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 3(390)
39-49
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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.
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To Give Providence a Shake

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Baczko B.
Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
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2007
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vol. 6
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issue 3-4(18)
217-231
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For Enlightenment, in the middle of 18th century, it is significant to understand nature in the categories of physical and moral order. Providence plays special role in it: it guarantees this order, but, at the same time, it is subordinated to the rules of that order rigorously. In this perspective, monsters and natural disasters, i.e. contingent accidents, through which nature seems to negate itself and to question its rational order, are of special interest and, from an epistemological point of view, are quite confusing. Earthquake, which on 1st November 1755 happened in Lisbon, provokes a lot of impetuous discussions. In this essay the author describes polemics in this matter between Voltaire and Rousseau, and the later standpoint by Condorcet.
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Windischgrätz a Condorcet: příběh jednoho osvícenského projektu

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Ondo G. M.
Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
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2009
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vol. 107
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issue 3
569-598
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This microhistoric study researches the co-operation of two Enlightenment scholars, Joseph Nicholas the Count de Windischgrätz and the Marquis de Condorcet, on a joint project of the then popular political arithmetic, which aimed to apply a mathematical model upon political acts and thus ensure their precise and indisputable outcome. The academic competition, for which Count de Windischgrätz invited applications in the 1780s stimulated international discussions in which fifty scholars and politicians from different countries, including five important European Academies of Science and Learned Societies, participated. The correspondence network, which was established thanks to this Project, connected a large part of Europe and thus fulfilled the idea of a supranational and suprastate 'institution' of the Republic of the Learned. This study primarily focuses upon the manner in which this Project gained international recognition, and on the communication and exchange of academic works, information and opinions between its two main protagonists, Condorcet and Windischgrätz.
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