Helvetius

HELVETIUS, (JEAN ADRIEN) & (PHILIOPPE HECQUET).Biblio.com

Traité des Pertes de Sang De quelque espece qu'elles soient. Avec leur Remede specifique. Nouvellement de'couvert. Accompagné de sa Lettre sur la nature & la guerison du Cancer. Seconde Edition revûe & augmentée. And Hecquet: Explication Physique.

170643406Paris Laurent D'Houry 1706. A Chambery J. Gorin 1707. Small 8vo. Bound together in one contemp. full calf. Title-and tomelabels with faint gilt lettering. Spine richly gilt in compartments. Slightly rubbed at edges. Engraved frontispiece. 16176 pp. Hacquet: 10885 pp. Internally clean and fine. unknown

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Oeuvres complettes. Nouvelle edition corrigee et augmentee sur les manuscrits de l'auteur avec sa vie et son portrait. 5 vols.

178161820London 1781. 8vo. Uniformly bound in five contemporary half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Two ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper in each volume. Light wear to extremities spines with stains. Internally nice and clean. CXV 5 282 pp. frontispiece; 2 448 pp. 4 384 pp.; 4 VIII 398 pp.; 2 407 pp. Uncommon clandestine edition of the works of Helvetius. "Cette edition clandestine de Bouillon au titre rouge et noir fut tirée a 2000 exemplaires sur papier de qualite. Est importante pour l'etude de Helvetius et est assez rare. Elle fut preparee a Paris par l'abbe Lefebvre de La Roche heritier des textes du philosophe . Il existe une autre edition identique sur papier moyen et sans portrait". Tchemerzine VI 200 i.e. This clandestine edition from Bouillon with a red and black title was printed in 2000 copies on quality paper. It is important for the study of Helvétius and is quite rare. It was prepared in Paris by Abbé Lefebvre de La Roche heir to the philosopher's texts. There is another identical edition on medium-quality paper and without a portrait. Tchemerzine VI 200.Graesse III 238. unknown

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De L'Homme De Ses Facultes Intellectuelle et de Son Education. Ouvrage Posthume de M. Helvetius

1781294242London: Societe Typographique 1781. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. 282; 448; 384; 398; 407 pages. Small 8vo full contemporary tree calf gilt-lettered and decorated spines; books are a bit rubbed top of spine on volume 3 is chipped; speckled edges. Londres: 1781. Internally tight and bright a very good set. Societe Typographique unknown

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De L'Esprit

1759173613Amsterdam: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. hardcover. very good. 2 vols. small 8vo full contemporary calf; leather spine labels. spines rubbed & chipped at the extremes; hinges weak. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus 1759. Very good. Early edition of the most important work of the renowned Encyclopedist in which he championed hedonism & self interest. The work was condemned by the Sorbonne and publicly burned in Paris in 1759 the year following the first edition. 18th century bookplate of Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes in each volume as well as 20th century book labels of art historian Meyer Schapiro. Arkstee & Merkus unknown

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Recueil des methodes aprouvee des ecoles de medecine pour la guerison des plus dangereuses maladies qui attaquent le corps humain telles que sont la verole par les frictions et les sueurs.; WITH: L'Art de Succer les Plaies Sans Servir de la Bouche d'un Homme avec Un Discours d'un Specifique Propre a Prevenir Certaines Maladies Veneriennes

1717263176Trevoux 1717. hardcover. very good. Numerous decorative initials and head/tailpieces throughout. 2 volumes in 3 parts bound in one. xii 300; 118; 2 90 3 pages. The third part by Dominique Anel is illustrated with 3 full page engravings and has a subsidiary title page without imprint but separate pagination. Thick 12mo full contemporary calf gilt spine; rubbed and slightly cracked. Trevoux: N.P. 1717. First Edition. Lower corner of title page on volume 1 has been neatly restored; still a very good copy of this rather scarce book. unknown

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Oeuvres complètes D'Helvetius en quatorze tomes

1795002338P. Didot Ll'aîne 1795 Complete in 14 volumes. 32mo 12x7 cm 4¾x3" period quarter calf and marbled boards gilt decorated spines with morocco title and number labels lettered in gilt. The complete works of Claude Adrien Helvétius the French philosopher freemason and littérateur in the original French. Scarce complete set of this edition. Condition: Some wear to bindings with rubbing to extremities 7 volumes missing number labels some chips to title labels; interiors solid with occasional light toning and foxing; very good. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. P. Didot Ll'aîne hardcover

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De L'Espirit: Or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

175969044London: Printed for the Translator 1759. Full Description: HELVETIUS Claude Adrian. De L'Espirit: or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties. Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection. London: Printed for the Translator 1759. First edition in English published one year after the first edition in France. Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 275 x 215 mm. xvi 331 1 blank pp. with the title page printed in red and black. Full later crushed morocco. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge deckled fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Newer endpapers. Title-page with a small tear to upper blank margin presumably from erasing a previous owner's old signature which there are traces of. Leaf B4 with small tear to top blank margin and a small hole in text only affecting one letter. Leaf X2 with a closed tear with no loss and a large marginal stain. Pages 273-296 with a marginal dampstain not touching text. A few leaves with minor stains and spots. Still A very good copy with wide margins and virtually no foxing. "The main position of Helvetius may be summed up as follows: man is a purely sentient animal only differing from other animals by a higher degree of physical sentiency. Human passions are nothing else but the various modes of manifestation of this physical sentiency which is the only motor of human actions; pleasure or pain are their unavoidable results: to pursue the former and avoid the latter is to conform to the only natural law. Helvetius is thus in some respects a forerunner of modern utilitaranism and hedonism" Palgrave Vol. II p. 299. Higgs 2090. Kress 5783. HBS 69044. $1000. Printed for the Translator unknown

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De L'Esprit: Or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

1759005014London: Printed for the Translator 1759. 3 iv-xvi 1 2-331pp 1. Original speckled calf boards later rebacked raised bands spine in six panels old title label to second panel bands with double rules in gilt to top and bottom gilt roll to board edges. Corners repaired some light staining to covers internally lightly browned throughout with occasional spot of foxing but generally clean. Title in red and black. With several pages mispaginated as per Smith but register correct. The first edition in English of Helvetius' 'De L'Esprit' "an almost openly materialistic and atheistic work" Israel 'Democratic Enlightenment' page 71. Smith 'Bibliography of Helvetius' E.14; Higgs 2090; Kress 5783. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 4to. Printed for the Translator Hardcover

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LE BONHEUR OU SYSTEME DE JURISPRUDENCE NATURELLE. Rilegato assieme a: LE BONHEUR Poeme en six chants avec des fragments.

1753009248Berlin Londres 17531773. Due opere in un volume 9x157 cm di 158 pp e LXXII-83 pp. Una brunitura diffusa alla prima opera con erosione marginale all'angolo alto della pagina di titolo senza toccare lo stampato con firmetta antica di possesso. Macchioline al titolo della seconda opera. Legatura coeva in papier dominoté dorso spaccato senza pagine bianche. 1-Luzac LE BONHEUR OU. Prima edizione. L'opera è stata a volte erroneamente anche attribuita a La Mettrie di cui Luzac era editore in Olanda. Ma in realtà era stato lo stesso Luzac a confutare l'opera di La Mettrie con L'Homme plus que machine. La raison la tolérance la modération et l'harmonie sont des valeurs centrales pour Luzac. Il fait partie du monde des Lumières modérées et à ce titre croit en la liberté intellectuelle et s'oppose à l'intolérance du clergé et à la répression gouvernementale. Raro. 2- Helvetius: LE BONHEUR. Edizione dell'anno seguente all'originale. Probabile contraffazione: nel 1773 le edizioni vere o pirata si susseguirono almeno cinque. « Les pages préliminaires sont occupées par un Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Helvetius attribué à Duclos sans raison sérieuse et dont Saint-Lambert s'est déclaré par la suite être l'auteur. On le retrouve dans ses Oeuvres Philosophiques. Grimm en fait le plus grand éloge. » unknown

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Le vrai sens de la Nature. Ouvrage posthume.

177442324London 1774. 8vo. Very nice contemporary full mottled calf with richly gilt spine. Gilt line to edges of boards. Marbled edges. A bit of minor scattered brownspotting and some smaller dampstaining towards end. All in all a very nice copy. 4 III 1 151 pp. Beautiful woodcut vignettes. Possibly first edition. One of three editions printed in 1774 none of which has been established as the true first. All three editions are printed in London but differ in number of pages the other two having 96 and 84 respectively ours having 151. This very interesting work of the French Enlightenment is probably not written by Helvetius but by whom is not known. It does stay within the controversial lines of the great Enlightenment philosophers though probably being the reson why the author has never been identified. It has a lot in common with d'Holbach's monumental "Système de la Nature" from 1770 which constitutes the main work of materialism and one of the most important works of natural philosophy. Tchermerzine VI:195. hardcover

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Systeme de la nature Ensemble Le vrai sens du systême de la nature

177436999à Londres London Amsterdam: S. n. Marc Michel Rey 1774. Fine. S. n. Marc Michel Rey à Londres London Amsterdam 1774 12.50 x 19.50 cm relié Rare and interesting gathering of these two works. New edition of the Système de la nature after the rare first edition of 1770 and first edition of Helvetius's work at the same date of 1774 as this new edition of Mirabaud; in reality three editions appeared at the same date with different collation without being able to determine if there is a true first edition. Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Richly decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label. Red edges. Tail headcaps torn away. A brown stain on the upper board of volume I. Restoration using a piece of leather on the upper board of volume II. Fairly good copy. Helvetius's work is an exegesis and examination of the Système de la nature the author seems to have condensed the material in the form of maxims and assertions all resting on a strong materialist creed. We now know that the work may not be by Helvetius although we recognize his philosophy in it. As for Mirabaud's Système de la nature it was received like a bombshell in literary circles and ultimately quite poorly received by the philosophers. It was not d'Holbach's openly materialist theses that were condemned but the demonstration of atheism and anticlericalism. S. n.[ Marc Michel Rey] hardcover

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Oeuvres Completes de M. Helvetius: Nouvelle Edition Corrigee & Augmentee sur les Manuscrits de l'Auteur avec sa Vie & son Portrait en CINQ5 VOLUMES in Five Volumes

17807053007Londres London 1780-1781. 1/2 calf and marbled boards. 1/2 veau. Spines all damaged with tops and bottoms of leather missing: needs rebacking. Covers otherwise lightly rubbed contents clean tight: nice reading copy as is or reback to collectible condition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait by L.M. Vanloo. Volume 2 is dated 1780; the others are 1781. Neither the editor nor the publisher are specified. TEXTS IN FRENCH; TEXTES EN FRANCAIS. hardcover

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De l'espirit: or essays on the mind and its several faculties . Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection

175922826London: printed for the translator and sold by Mr. Dodsley 1759. First edition in English 4to pp. xvi 331; title-p. in red and black; recent full black goatskin gilt ruled border gilt paneled spine red morocco label. About fine. Interesting text and the author's most famous book probing psychology ethics the moralities of social interaction the rewards and virtues of human understanding memory mortality. Kress 5783. printed for the translator and sold by Mr. Dodsley unknown

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Oeuvres ComplètesNouvelle Édition Corrigée Et Augmentée Sur Les Manuscrits De LAuteur Avec Sa Vie Et Son Portrait

1781elala1449London Bouillon: Société Typographique 1781. 1781. 2 Volumes. 4to. pp. lxxii 407; 2 p.l. iv 708. with half-titles. titles in red & black. engraved frontis. portrait by Aug. de St. Aubin after L.M.Vanloo. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary marbled calf gilt backs some wear to extremities short splits in joints. First and Only Quarto Edition of which 500 copies were printed according to Smith. This copy has both titles in red and black dated 1781 the original setting of the table in smaller type pp. 399-409 and the second version of the portrait noted by Smith. Helvetius' thought represents the extreme form attained by the sensationalist and utilitarian philosophy in eighteenth century France and his most famous treatise De LEsprit had a wide and profound influence on Beccaria the Encyclopedist movement particularly Holbach the British Utilitarians especially Bentham and Mill as well as on Godwin who considered it to be one of the most influential books in his development. "No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseau's Émile evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic materialistic sacrilegious immoral and subversive it enjoyed a remarkable succès de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication." Smith Denounced by the Sorbonne as containing within its pages all of the poisons scattered through modern literature it was burned by order of the parlement at the beginning of 1759. Helvetius himself made three separate retractions but his work was widely reprinted translated and read throughout Europe. The second volume contains De LHomme De Ses Facultès Intellectuelles Et De Son Éducation Le Bonheur and correspondence with Voltaire Hume &c. Smith O6. Tchemerzine VI 200 b. Hardcover. London [Bouillon: Société Typographique], 1781. Hardcover

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De L'homme de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.

177317694London = France: La Société Typographique 1773. Contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine. 8vo. 2 volumes bound as 1. Third or second edition of one of the key works of the Radical Enlightenment published in the same year as the first edition. The author had evoked huge outcry with the publication of De L'esprit 1758 a carefully argued essay on the mind in which he roundly rejected metaphysics and the idea of Truth replacing Christian morals by purely utilitarian ethics and stressing the importance of education as the key to moral behaviour. In De l'homme Helvétius expanded and clarified his views provoking even Diderot to write a Réfutation. The present edition was most likely printed in France and as Smith argues it was probably this edition that the Paris Parliament condemned on 10 January 1774.Binding slightly rubbed; top of spine slightly worn. Fine copy.l Smith Bibliography H.3; cf. Cioranescu 33651 other edition; for Helvétius's philosophy: Blom A Wicked Company pp. 126-129. La Société Typographique, unknown

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De lesprit On the Mind

1758873Paris: Durand 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An Important Document for Understanding 18th Century French Censorship and Printing Practices and the Philosophical-Political Climate in 1758 HELVÉTIUS Claude-Adrien. De lesprit On the Mind Durand Paris 1758. 1 blank leaf half- title TP i-xxii 1-643 644 = Approbation and Privilege du Roi 1 blank leaf. Quarto. The B Tirage of De lesprit see below.Smith E.1b. The history of Helvétiuss De lesprit his first major work is eventful complicated and paradoxical. No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseaus Émile evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic materialistic sacrilegious immoral and subversive it enjoyed a remarkable success de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication. The publication history is no less eventful and complicated. There are three distinct first editions of the book: called the A B and C tirages. After carefully orchestrating efforts to mislead and bully the censor into a hasty approval of the text the A tirage the first impressions of the original edition which had begun to leave the presses by the end of June were kept by Helvétius for his personal friends. But before the work could be put on sale to the general public Malesherbes directeur de la librarie ordered that publication of the work be suspended indefinitely. The subversiveness of the book had been discovered and a new censor was introduced into the controversy and changes were made to the text. At this point the cunning of Helvétiuss publisher Durand came into play. He set up a completely new type modeling it upon the original edition. This type it can easily be recognized by its different type-setting and by its several new printing errors was adapted to suit the second censors requirements and was used to produce the second edition the B tirage. Thus when De lesprit was officially published in Paris on July 27th 1758 nobody suspected that it was in fact a completely new edition. However Durand had secretly saved and hidden the original typeset forms. The publication in 1758 of his principal work De lesprit was noisily condemned by the authorities both ecclesiastical and ministerial for its dangerously heretical and subversive opinions. Suppression of the book signaled a grave but fortunately temporary setback for the party of philosophes and Encyclopedists. Despite the recantations that Helvetius was forced to make regarding De lesprit he reaffirmed his ideas even more strongly in De LHomme de ses facultes intellectuelles et se son education published posthumously in 1772. EP Vol. 3 p. 472 Helvètius continued the work of Condillac by reducing all human understanding to sensation or sense- perception. He then took this reductionist psychology and erected a utilitarian theory of morality based upon it making him one of the chief pioneers and promoters of utilitarian moral theory Copelston VI 1 p. 51. Helvètius was a strong defender of the benefits of education and also extremely political attacking all forms of despotism and in particular French despotism. CONDITION: Very good or better in a contemporary full calf binding with boards that are just a bit scuffed. The spine with five raised bands and beautiful gilt lettering and devices. Bookplate to front paste down. Stamp to upper corner of title page. Seemingly rehanged but expertly done. With lovely marbled endpapers. Overall a very beautiful copy of this book. Durand hardcover

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DE L'ESPRIT.

1758024097Paris: Durand 1758. E.O. Un volume in quarto 21x26 cm di 4 XXII- 643 pagine. Seguito da: CENSURE de la Faculté de Theologie de Paris contre le livre qui a pour titre De lEsprit. Paris Garnier; 1758. Pp 79; testo e titolo anche in latino. ARRETS de la Cour de Parlement du 23 Janvier 1759. Paris Simon; 1759. Pp 31. Condamnation et prohibition. de la part du pape Clement XIII. Roma Camera apostolica; 1759. Pp4; testo in latino e francese. Mandement de Monseigneur lArcheveque de Paris. Paris Simon; 1758. Pp 28; seguito dallEstratto delle Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques. -Legatura coeva in piena pelle dorso a nervi ornato e dorato. Usure alla cuffia superiore a due angoli fenditure alla cerniere; tagli rossi risguardie in carta marmorizzata. Grandi margini. Condizioni molto buone per questa Edizione Originale first edition tiraggio C secondo lo studio di D.W. Smith. Tchemerzine: E.O. Dans beaucoup dexemplaires on trouve à la suite les pièces du procés. Malgrado i tentativi di ritrattazione e di ammenda dellautore lopera venne venne condannata dalla Facoltà di teologia di Parigi dal Papa Clemente XIII 31 gennaio 1759 quindi dal Parlamento. come contenente affermazioni empie blasfeme erronee ed eretiche. Durand unknown

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De l'esprit

1758233527Paris: Chez Durand 1758. First edition second issue. 4 xxii 643 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. Contemporary mottled calf gilt spine with red leather label marbled endpapers and edges. Upper joint starting but solid half-title with small stain at outer edge overall a fresh crisp copy. First edition second issue. 4 xxii 643 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius De l'esprit On the Mind was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism regarded as dangerously revolutionary by the Court of Louis XV and publicly condemned by Parliament. A follower of Locke's empiricism Helvetius's work was an important development in the history of utilitarian thought and both Bentham and Mill were strongly influenced by Helvetius's elaboration of a theory which saw mankind as the product of his environment and his education. The first issue of the first edition is very rare: Smith locates only 15 copies. Smith E.1B Chez Durand unknown

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De l'Esprit. - PRESENTATION-COPY OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE

175852026Paris Durand 1758. Large 4to. Large-paper copy bound in a beautiful contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. Triple gilt line-borders to boards all edges of boards gilt and inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. A stunning bright clean and fresh copy with minimal wear and no restorations of any kind. Presentation-inscriptions to front free end-paper and to verso of title-page see description in note below. Large woodcut title-vignette and many smaller vignettes throughout. 4 XXII 643 1 pp. 40 ff. i.e. the original uncorrected leaves: pp. 1-16; 35-38; 59-62; 67-70; 75-78; 139-142; 145-154; 169-176; 187-190; 233-34; 227-230; 459-462; 547-550; 603-606 2 extra leaves that were printed incorrectly namely p. 160 - reset & p. 239 - different vignette. Extremely rare first edition first issue with manuscript dedication-inscription from the author of this monumental work of the French Enlightenment. This magnum opus of modern thought is considered the founding work of modern Utilitarianism as it is here that Helvétius articulates the greatest happiness principle "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" for the first time and becomes the first to define social welfare upon this utilitarian maxim directly influencing Bentham and Mill.The materialistic philosophy of Helvétius' "De l'Esprit" also directly influenced Karl Marx who had studied the work while in Paris and called the ideas presented in it "the social basis of communism"."De l'Esprit" arguably constitutes the greatest "succès de scandale" of Western thought and one of the most influential works of Western philosophy.This magnificent copy is stunning in all ways. It contains all the extremely rare condemned and repressed leaves of the first issue bound in the back it is printed on large paper contemporarily bound presumably under instruction by Helvétius himself in a stunning full calf gift binding and with two manuscript ex-dono- presentation- inscriptions by Helvétius himself. One of them on the verso of the title-page is crossed out but is still legible reading "donum auctoris 17 avril 1760 Cl. Helvetius" the second on the front free end-paper reads "ex dono auctoris 1761" - thus indicating that Helvétius who had the copy in his possession to give away when he felt it appropriate had first intended to give it away - perhaps late in the year - in 1760 and then ended up giving it away in 1761. The work lost its privilege almost immediately and even though Hélvetius wrote three retractions it was still condemned and publicly burnt. In spite of this Helvétius still kept a few copies of the very first issue with all the original leaves. According to Smith 15 copies existed and as Jacques Guérin also notes these copies were all intended for his close friends and family we know for instance that Rousseau received one of the copies. These copies of which the present is one are thus of the utmost scarcity. Only one other has been on the market within the last 25 years namely that of Jacques Guérin which however did not have a dedication-inscription from Helvétius.As Tchermerzine describes the extremely rare copies of the first issue which are either without the newly formulated leaves or with the original leaves preserved our copy has them all! are between 10 and 60 times as valuable as the later issues depending on condition - these between 4 and 15 copies are the only ones to contain the 80 revolutionary pages that caused the work to be condemned and burnt and sent Helvétius into exile. Tchermerzine does not however account for copies with a presentation-inscription like the present. The work caused an immense uproar when it appeared. It was considered so heretical atheistic and immoral that it lost its privilege within a fortnight; it was heavily condemned by the Church and the State and was burnt by the Hangman the plan being to destroy all copies of it. Few books in the entire history of printing have been met with such opposition - it was condemned by both the son of Louis XV and the Sorbonne and the priests succeeded in convincing the court that the doctrines were so dangerous that even though Helvetius wrote three retractions the book was still publically burned; and when the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert was suppressed for the second time this had much to do with Helvétius' De l'Esprit and the scandal it had caused.This scandalous work however gained so much attention that it was almost immediately translated into all European languages contributing to the immense influence it came to have on all European thought. "The history of Helvetius's De l'esprit 1758 his first major work is eventful complicated and paradoxical. No book during the eighteenth century except perhaps Rousseau's Emile evoked such an outcry from the religious and civil authorities or such universal public interest. Condemned as atheistic materialistic sacrilegious immoral and subversive it enjoyed a remarkable succes de scandale. The work lost its privilege within a fortnight of its publication. It was attacked in Church periodicals and in polemical pamphlets in the literary salons and in popular songs from bishops' pulpits and from the stage of the Théâtre francais. Though Helvetius retracted his book three times he was condemned by the Archbishop of Paris Nov. 1758 the Pope Jan. 1759 the Parlement of Paris Feb. 1759 the Sorbonne Apr. 1759 and by various bishops." Smith p. 332."In "De l'ésprit" 1758 Helvétius follows the Lockean sensationalism of Condillac and pairs it with the claim that human beings are motivated in their actions only by the natural desire to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their pain. "De l'ésprit" though widely read gives rise to strong negative reactions in the time both by political and religious authorities the Sorbonne the Pope and the Parlement of Paris all condemn the book and by prominent fellow philosophes in great part because Helvétius's psychology seems to critics to render moral imperatives and values without basis despite his best attempts to derive them. Helvétius attempts to ground the moral equality of all human beings by portraying all human beings whatever their standing in the social hierarchy whatever their special talents and gifts as equally products of the nature we share plus the variable influences of education and social environment." SEP.D. W. Smith The Publication of Helvetius's De l'esprit in French Studies 1968 p. 105.Tschermerzine III:672. hardcover

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Traité des Pertes de Sang De quelque espece qu'elles soient. Avec leur Remede specifique. Nouvellement de'couvert. Accompagné de sa Lettre sur la nature & la guerison du Cancer. Seconde Edition revûe & augmentée. And Hecquet: Explication Physique.

Oeuvres complettes. Nouvelle edition corrigee et augmentee sur les manuscrits de l'auteur avec sa vie et son portrait. 5 vols.

De L'Homme De Ses Facultes Intellectuelle et de Son Education. Ouvrage Posthume de M. Helvetius

De L'Esprit

Oeuvres complètes D'Helvetius en quatorze tomes

De L'Espirit: Or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

De L'Esprit: Or Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties

LE BONHEUR OU SYSTEME DE JURISPRUDENCE NATURELLE. Rilegato assieme a: LE BONHEUR Poeme en six chants avec des fragments.

Le vrai sens de la Nature. Ouvrage posthume.

Systeme de la nature Ensemble Le vrai sens du systême de la nature

Oeuvres Completes de M. Helvetius: Nouvelle Edition Corrigee & Augmentee sur les Manuscrits de l'Auteur avec sa Vie & son Portrait en CINQ5 VOLUMES in Five Volumes

De l'espirit: or essays on the mind and its several faculties . Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection

Oeuvres ComplètesNouvelle Édition Corrigée Et Augmentée Sur Les Manuscrits De LAuteur Avec Sa Vie Et Son Portrait

De L'homme de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume.

De lesprit On the Mind

DE L'ESPRIT.

De l'esprit

De l'Esprit. - PRESENTATION-COPY OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE

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