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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 243,368 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Adrien Helvétius is the 178th most popular philosopher (down from 165th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from France (down from 337th in 2019) and the 21st 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 178 out of 1,081Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Karl Kautsky, Solomon ibn Gabirol, José Ortega y Gasset, Pierre Gassendi, and Max Horkheimer. After him are Emmanuel Levinas, Posidonius, Hippasus, Han Fei, Jakob Böhme, and Muhammad Abduh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2Before him is Peter II of Russia. After him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Robert-François Damiens, Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Among people deceased in 1771, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 2Before 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, Thomas Gray, John Bevis, and Tobias Smollett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 363 out of 6,011Before him are Louis IV of France (920), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pope Innocent V (1225), Léo Delibes (1836), and Prosper Mérimée (1803). After him are Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Le Brun (1619), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Gregory of Tours (538), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Mauriac (1885).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Claude Adrien Helvétius ranks 21Before him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Pierre Gassendi (1592). After him are Ernest Renan (1823), Pierre Bayle (1647), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714).