Helvetius

Ken Binmore ()

Chapter Chapter 4 in Early Utilitarians, 2021, pp 17-21 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Hutcheson would not have approved of Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715–1771) one little bit. Nor did the Catholic Church or King Louis XV of France, who had all traceable copies of his 1758 book De l'Esprit burned in the street by the Parisian hangman.1 Helvetius had presumably been counting on the tolerance hitherto shown to les philosophes of the Encyclopedie, and the favor shown to him by the Queen, but when the full might of the state was turned against him, he wrote three humiliating retractions, after which he kept out of France for a while, first in England and then in Prussia, where he had an invitation from the philosophically minded Frederick the Great.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74583-7_4

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