A descendant of the Caritats, whose title was adopted from their homelands of Condorcet, near Nyons in southeast France, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Marquis de Condorcet (b. September 17, 1743; Ribemont-sur-Aisne, France) was a French mathematician and Enlightenment philosopher, whose contribution to social justice in France both before and after the French Revolution was manifold. Although his early academic successes were in mathematics – writing a calculus treatise at age 22 (“Essai sur le calcul integral” 1765) and, at 34, becoming permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences (see “Éloges des Académiciens de l’Académie Royale des Sciences morts depuis 1666 jusqu’en 1699” 1773) – he is most notable as a public servant and champion of social causes (“le bien public”), reflected in his polemical political career as an advocate for human rights (“De l’influence de la Révolution sur l’Europe” 1786); women’s rights (“Sur l’admission des femmes au droits de la cite” 1790);...
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Myers, R. (2011). Condorcet, N. Marquis de. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_440
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