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Antoine Destutt de Tracy

1754 - 1836

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Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (French: [dɛstyt də tʁasi]; 20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836) was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Destutt de Tracy is the 403rd most popular philosopher (up from 435th in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,290th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Philosopher.

Antoine Destutt de Tracy is most famous for his work on the theory of knowledge and the idea of the three powers of the mind. The three powers are the imagination, which is the power to form mental images; the understanding, which is the power to compare and contrast those images; and the memory, which is the power to retain those images.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 403 out of 1,267. Before him are Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Anne Conway, Carl Gustav Hempel, Siger of Brabant, Plutarch of Athens, and Karl Rahner. After him are Luce Irigaray, E. H. Carr, Yajnavalkya, Paul Tillich, Thomas Hill Green, and Mulla Sadra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 12. Before him are Georg Forster, Seraphim of Sarov, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Frederick I of Württemberg, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. After him are Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Louis de Bonald, William Bligh, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and Salawat Yulayev. Among people deceased in 1836, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 18. Before him are Anthony of Saxony, Maria Malibran, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Claude-Louis Navier, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild. After him are Anton Reicha, Davy Crockett, Aaron Burr, James Mill, William Henry, and Edward Turner Bennett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 1,162 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Poher (1909), Jean Rochefort (1930), Louise de Marillac (1591), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), and Lionel Jospin (1937). After him are Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Leonard of Noblac (496), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), and Édouard Lucas (1842).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 54. Before him are Étienne Cabet (1788), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Edgar Morin (1921), Antoine Arnauld (1612), and Richard Avenarius (1843). After him are Jean Gerson (1363), Alain de Benoist (1943), Étienne Gilson (1884), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Alain de Lille (1117), and Vincent of Beauvais (1190).

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