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Helvétius
[ hel-vee-shuhs; French el-vey-syys ]
noun
- Claude A·dri·en [klawd , ey, -dree-, uh, n, klohd , a, -d, r, ee-, ahn], 1715–71, French philosopher.
Helvétius
/ hɛlˈviːʃɪəs; ɛlvesjys /
noun
- HelvétiusClaude Adrien17151771MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Claude Adrien (klod adriɛ̃). 1715–71, French philosopher. In his chief work De l'Esprit (1758), he asserted that the mainspring of human action is self-interest and that differences in human intellects are due only to differences in education
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Helvétius adds to this that the only real pains and pleasures are the physical, but Bentham does not follow him here.
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The theory, as Mill reminds us, had been very pointedly anticipated by Helvétius.
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Maupertuis was the hero of a day, and Helvétius accordingly applied himself to become a geometer.
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“Helvétius sweated a long time to write a single chapter,” if we may believe one of his intimates.
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Why did Bentham raise upon it a fabric of such value to mankind, while Helvétius covered it with useless paradox?
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