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Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Gregory, Mary Efrosini

Hardcover

Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Book 166

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1433103737
ISBN13: 9781433103735
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Oct 28 2008
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines how eight eighteenth-century French theorists - Maillet, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Maupertuis, Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire - addressed evolutionism. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually open the door to the mutability of species and a departure from the long-held belief that the chain of beings is fixed. This book describes how the philosophes established a triune relationship among contemporary scientific discoveries, random creationism propelled by the motive and conscious properties of matter, and the notion of the chain of being, along with its corollaries, plenitude and continuity. Also addressed is the contemporary debate over whether apes could ever be taught to speak as well as the issue of race and the family of man.

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