PHILOSOPHER

Claude Adrien Helvétius

1715 - 1771

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Claude Adrien Helvétius (; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Adrien Helvétius is the 184th most popular philosopher (down from 173rd in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from France (down from 389th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Philosopher.

Claude Adrien Helvétius is most famous for his work "On the Mind" which was published in 1758. In it, he argues that the human mind is a tabula rasa, or blank slate, and that human beings are shaped by their environment.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 184 out of 1,267. Before him are Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, Cesare Beccaria, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After him are Jean Baudrillard, Sextus Empiricus, José Ortega y Gasset, Bernard Bolzano, Gemistus Pletho, and Pierre Gassendi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Peter II of Russia. After him are Robert-François Damiens, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau. Among people deceased in 1771, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden. After him are Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Louis-Michel van Loo, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, John Bevis, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, František Brixi, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 417 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Valéry (1871), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Claude Bernard (1813), James I of Aragon (1208), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908). After him are Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Louise Bourgeois (1911).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 20. Before him are Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908). After him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714).

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