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Claude-Adrien Helvétius

1715 - 1771

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author: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s ’Spirit of Laws’

About this person:

Helvétius was a French philosopher who defended a materialist theory of human nature in which all human action is determined by the surroundings. His book De l’homme (1758) could not be published in his lifetime.