On Condorcet's “Sketch”
@article{Baker2004OnC, title={On Condorcet's “Sketch”}, author={K. Baker}, journal={Daedalus}, year={2004}, volume={133}, pages={56-64} }
Dædalus Summer 2004 Marie-Jean-Antoine Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet’s Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind– perhaps the most influential formulation of the idea of progress ever written –was 1⁄2rst published in 1795, a year after its author’s death. Conceived as an introduction to a much more comprehensive work, Condorcet’s essay, hastily written while he was in hiding from his Jacobin enemies, was in part an ironic by-product of the author’s political defeat. In… CONTINUE READING
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