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Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

1717 - 1778

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Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (French: [etjɛn gabʁjɛl mɔʁɛli]; 1717–1778) was a French utopian thinker, philosopher and novelist. An otherwise "obscure tax official", and teacher, Morelly wrote two books on education, a critique of Montesquieu and The Code of Nature, which was published anonymously in France in 1755. This book, initially attributed to philosophes including Rousseau and Diderot, criticised contemporary society, postulated a social order without avarice, and proposed a constitution intended to lead to an egalitarian society without property, marriage, church or police. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne-Gabriel Morelly is the 575th most popular philosopher (up from 697th in 2019), the 1,819th most popular biography from France (up from 2,254th in 2019) and the 74th most popular French Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly ranks 575 out of 1,267. Before him are Philipp Mainländer, Nancy Fraser, Agrippa the Skeptic, Antonio Labriola, Jean-Marie Guyau, and Nicos Poulantzas. After him are María Zambrano, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Alan Watts, Pierre Charron, Zeno of Sidon, and Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1717, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly ranks 10. Before him are Mustafa III, Horace Walpole, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Peter III of Portugal, Johann Stamitz, and Ernst Gideon von Laudon. After him are Marie Anne de Mailly, David Garrick, Louis François, Prince of Conti, Ebrahim Afshar, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg. Among people deceased in 1778, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly ranks 9. Before him are Voltaire, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Laura Bassi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Anna Maria Mozart, and James Hargreaves. After him are Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Thomas Arne, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, and Charles De Geer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly ranks 1,819 out of 6,770. Before him are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), Henri Michel (1947), Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Pierre Cambronne (1770), Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043), and Pierre Levegh (1905). After him are Marie Trintignant (1962), Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Philip I, Count of Savoy (1207), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Pierre Nora (1931), and Nicolas Anelka (1979).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly ranks 74. Before him are Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Victor Cousin (1792), Michel Serres (1930), Gersonides (1288), William of Champeaux (1070), and Jean-Marie Guyau (1854). After him are Pierre Charron (1541), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Jean Hyppolite (1907), Jacques Ellul (1912), Henry Corbin (1903), and Berengar of Tours (998).

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