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Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, (born September 17, 1743, Ribemont, France—died March 29, 1794, Bourg-la-Reine), French philosopher of the Enlightenment and advocate of educational reform and women’s rights. He was one of the major Revolutionary formulators of the ideas of progress, or the indefinite ...

Bourg-la-Reine. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, constitutionalism ...

September 17, 1743 – Birth of Marquis de Condorcet, French Philosopher Whose Ideas Embodied the Age of Enlightenment; September 14, 1901 – Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt; September 11, 2001 – Only Judicial Conference of US Session in History Halted Before it Could be Concluded

Marquis de CONDORCET. b. 17 September 1743 - d. 29 March 1794 Summary. Condorcet applied mathematics in precocious and philosophically argued fashion to humanistic and social problems. His probabilistic work is full of interesting ideas on mathematical expectation, inverse probability and taking into account evolution over time, amongst others.

Young researchers study day “The West seen from Buddhism” October 20, 2023, EHESS, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers) With its millions of practitioners and its spread across almost all of Asia, Buddhism appears to be the continent’s “world religion” par excellence (Mazusawa 2005). Long conceived as the cultural matrix of the Asian world, it remains difficult to… Continue reading The ...