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4| aut a| Helvétius d| 1715-1771 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q190302 9| 25040

a| De l'esprit

a| Paris b| Marabout c| 1973

a| 507 pages

a| Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

a| In 1758 Helvétius published his philosophical magnum opus, a work called De l'esprit (On Mind), which claimed that all human faculties are attributes of mere physical sensation, and that the only real motive is self-interest, therefore there is no good and evil, only competitive pleasures. Its atheistic, utilitarian and egalitarian doctrines raised a public outcry, and the Sorbonne publicly burned it in 1759, forcing Helvétius to issue several retractions.

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4| edt a| Châtelet, François d| 1925-1985 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1450977 9| 25043

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