PHILOSOPHER

Claude Adrien Helvétius

1715 - 1771

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Claude Adrien Helvétius (; French: [klod adʁijɛ̃ ɛlvesjys]; 26 January 1715 – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Adrien Helvétius has received more than 261,121 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Adrien Helvétius is the 173rd most popular philosopher (up from 178th in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from France (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Philosopher.

Claude Adrien Helvétius is most famous for his work "On the Mind" which was published in 1758. In it, he argues that the human mind is a tabula rasa, or blank slate, and that human beings are shaped by their environment.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 173 out of 1,267. Before him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Cesare Beccaria, Athanasius Kircher, Al-Ash'ari, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are Xun Kuang, Ernest Renan, Proclus, Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, and Pierre Bayle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Peter II of Russia. After him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Robert-François Damiens, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Dorothea Erxleben, Ewald Christian von Kleist, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1771, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2. Before him is Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden. After him are Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, Louis-Michel van Loo, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Alexei Razumovsky, John Bevis, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Tobias Smollett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 389 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Léo Delibes (1836), Louis IV of France (920), and Fernandel (1903). After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Jules Rimet (1873), Ernest Renan (1823), Paul Éluard (1895), James I of Aragon (1208), and Gustave Moreau (1826).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 17. Before him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Jean Buridan (1295), and Jean Baudrillard (1929). After him are Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Paul Ricœur (1913), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638).

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