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éپܲ

[ hel-vee-shuhs; French el-vey-syys ]

noun

  1. Claude A·dri·en [klawd , ey, -dree-, uh, n, klohd , a, -d, r, ee-, ahn], 1715–71, French philosopher.


éپܲ

/ hɛlˈviːʃɪəs; ɛlvesjys /

noun

  1. éپܲClaude Adrien17151771MFrenchPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Claude Adrien (klod adriɛ̃). 1715–71, French philosopher. In his chief work De l'Esprit (1758), he asserted that the mainspring of human action is self-interest and that differences in human intellects are due only to differences in education
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Hall invented the line to sum up Voltaire’s thinking in regard to the writings of French philosopher Claude Adrien éپܲ, but because it was written in first person, many misread it as an actual quote.

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He read the lives of the various people who had succeeded in doing so: Helvetius, Elias, Fulcanelli, and Geber.

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“I disapprove of what you say,” he is said to have written to the philosopher Claude éپܲ, “but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

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Modern publications on this subject, 223, note éپܲ, on the origin of human actions, i.

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Compared with éپܲ, 313 Aurelius, Marcus, on a future state, i.

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