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Condillac's work on politics and history, contained, for the most part, in his Cours d ' études, offers few features of interest, except so far as it illustrates his close affinity to English thought: he had not the warmth and imagination to make a good historian.
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His principal work Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations was published in 1749, three years after Condillac's Essai sur l ' origine des connaissances humaines, in which similar theories were expounded.
Much of Condillac's work reflected mainstream Physiocrats, particularly his analysis of the structure of taxation and proposals for the revival of the economy, but he also proposed another line of argument, claiming that producers work to obtain utility.
Condillac's and on
It had an influence on Condillac's Grammaire ( 1775 ) and a very important role in the birth of a scientific conception of language.
Condillac's and for
In France Condillac's doctrine, so congenial to the tone of 18th century philosophism, reigned in the schools for over fifty years, challenged only by a few who, like Maine de Biran, saw that it gave no sufficient account of volitional experience.
Condillac's and most
As was fitting to a disciple of Locke, Condillac's ideas have had most importance in their effect upon English thought.
Condillac's and had
A friendship with Rousseau, which lasted in some measure to the end, may have been due in the first instance to the fact that Rousseau had been domestic tutor in the family of Condillac's elder brother, Jean Bonnot, known as Monsieur de Mably, at Lyon.
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In both cases the profession was hardly more than nominal, and Condillac's whole life, with the exception of an interval as tutor at the court of Parma, was devoted to speculation.
Thanks to his natural caution and reserve, Condillac's relations with unorthodox philosophers did not injure his career ; and he justified abundantly the choice of the French court in sending him to Parma to educate the orphan duke, then a child of seven years.
It is obvious enough that Condillac's anti-spiritual psychology, with its explanation of personality as an aggregate of sensations, leads straight to atheism and determinism.
Condillac's ' Le Commerce et le Gouvernement ' ( published in 1776, the same year as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations ) attempted to place economics in a coherent logical framework.
Condillac's Histoire ancienne and Histoire moderne ( 1758 – 1767 ) demonstrated how the experience and observation of the past aided man.
Condillac's collected works were published in 1798 ( 23 vols.
A Critical Study of Condillac's Traité des Systèmes.
He concluded that Condillac's notion of passive receptivity as the one source of conscious experience was an error of method – in short, that the mechanical mode of viewing consciousness as formed by external influence was fallacious and deceptive.
It is important to notice the energy of his declaration against the argument of ontology, and also against Condillac's sensationalism.
; Two Metaphysical Beings: Condillac's sensitive statue inhabited by a new-formed soul which becomes human through sensory perception ( starting with smell ); a creature that can only sense the outside world through a moveable feeler.
work and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
`` My dress needs some work on it ''.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.
Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!
Supposing you or I were being accused in this manner, and yet we were doing our level best to carry on our work.
Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.
And I was to go to work on that odd matter.
Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.
Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
The work week of attendants who are on duty 65 hours and more per week should be reduced.
But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
`` Argiento, this is senseless '', he complained, not liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in cold weather.
Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.
She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
`` How you going to work with a child hanging on you ''??
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