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- Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), was a French mathematician, philosopher, and politician, the author of a philosophy of progress, of a program for educational reform, and one of the first to apply the calculus of probabilities to the analysis of voting and to social phenomena in general.
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Sep 13, 2024 · Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (born September 17, 1743, Ribemont, France—died March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine) was a French philosopher of the Enlightenment and advocate of educational reform and women’s rights.
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Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (French: [maʁi ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nikɔla də kaʁita maʁki də kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French political economist and mathematician. [2]
Antoine Caritat de Condorcet was a military man and was captain of the Barbançon regiment. He married Madeleine Gaudry on 12 March 1740 in Ribemont. Madeleine had been born in Ribemont on 30 January 1710 and had married her first husband Fulcrand Philippe Etienne de Saint Félixon on 3 January 1731.
- Early Life & Mathematic Career
- Politics & The Condorcet Method
- Ideas on Feminism, Education, & Slavery
- Family & Republicanism
- Revolutionary Career & Death
Condorcet was born on 17 September 1743, in the town of Ribemont-sur-Aisne in Picardy. His father, the Chevalier Antoine de Condorcet, was a cavalry captain who, while garrisoned in Ribemont, had met and married the widowed Marie-Madeleine de Gaudry in 1740. Only weeks after the birth of their only child, Antoine de Condorcet was killed on a milita...
In Lespinasse's salon, Condorcet befriended French economist Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781), who would become the marquis' political mentor. Turgot, a proponent of the Enlightenment who believed in physiocratic economic theories, would help Condorcet come to the belief that an administration's purpose was to serve the common good above all ...
Condorcet's work became increasingly concerned with creating an egalitarian society. Having become one of the most renowned Enlightenment philosophers of his day, his work was widely read, making it all the more significant that his views were extremely progressive for his time, particularly in regard to women's rights. He began writingextensively ...
In 1786, at the age of 42, Condorcet married 22-year-old Sophie de Grouchy (1764-1822). The two had met through their common interest in the defense of three peasants who had been victims of legal abuse and who were being represented by Grouchy's uncle. Like Condorcet, Sophie was an intellectual, who had learned English partially so she could trans...
In September 1791, Condorcet won election to the Legislative Assembly, representing Paris. He was made the Assembly's secretary and tasked with reforming the French educational system. Harkening back to the influence of Turgot and the physiocrats, Condorcet's education plan was to focus on the individual learner rather than the communal and center ...
Mar 10, 2009 · Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743–March 28, 1794) is most often referred to as one of the last philosophes or as an early champion of social science.
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, (born Sept. 17, 1743, Ribemont, France—found dead March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine), French mathematician, statesman, and revolutionary. He showed early promise as a mathematician and was a protégé of Jean Le Rond d’Alembert.
Jun 11, 2018 · Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, was a mathematician, politician, educational reformer, and utopian philosopher in the period leading up to and during the French Revolution.
