Concordet by Aubrey Snyder https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6 By: Aubrey Snyder en-us 2018-03-28 16:03:06 UTC 2018-04-06 03:58:56 UTC hello@padlet.com He went to school at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1785). aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/247856466 2018-04-02 16:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/247856466 ''He was educated at the Jesuit college in Reims and at the College of Navarre in Paris, where he showed his first promise as a mathematician. In 1769 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences, to which he contributed papers on mathematical and other subjects.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248950895 2018-04-05 16:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248950895 '' 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 perfectibility of humankind.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248952977 2018-04-05 16:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248952977 ''He was elected to the permanent secretaryship of the Academy of Sciences in 1777 and to the French Academy in 1782 and was a member of other European academies.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248954049 2018-04-05 16:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248954049 ''In 1786 he married Sophie de Grouchy (1764–1822), with whom he formed a remarkable intellectual partnership on the basis of their shared democratic convictions and their benign and optimistic view of human nature.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248954606 2018-04-05 16:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248954606 ''He was elected to represent Paris in the Legislative Assembly and became its secretary, was active in the reform of the educational system, was chief author of the address to the European powers in 1791, and in 1792 he presented a scheme for a system of state education, which was the basis of that ultimately adopted.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248955909 2018-04-05 16:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/248955909 ''Condorcet, wholly a man of the Enlightenment, sought to extend the empire of reason to social affairs. He advocated economic freedom, religious toleration, legal and educational reform, the abolition of slavery, and—unusually for his time—equal rights for women, including woman suffrage. '' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249104806 2018-04-06 03:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249104806 ''Condorcet’s Esquisse was published after his death by his wife, who in 1798 also published her own Lettres sur la sympathie (“Letters on Sympathy”) and an excellent translation of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759).'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249104977 2018-04-06 03:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249104977 “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ...“The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.” ...“There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature.” aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249105219 Some of his most famous quotes.]]> 2018-04-06 03:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249105219 ''Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.'' aubreyls0228 https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249105690 2018-04-06 03:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aubreyls0228/5yvc2yfevvd6/wish/249105690