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3 unusual facts about Étienne Bonnot de Condillac


Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

But, Condillac devoted his whole life, with the exception of an interval as a court-appointed tutor to the court of Parma, was devoted to speculation.

He had already published several works when the French court sent him to Parma to educate the orphan duke, then a child of seven years.

Michael Hissmann

Michael Hissmann (1752, Hermannstadt – 1784, Göttingen) was a German philosopher, a radical materialist who translated Condillac and Joseph Priestley into German.


Destutt de Tracy

Under the Reign of Terror, he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly a year, during which he studied Condillac and Locke, and abandoned the natural sciences for philosophy.


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