Condorcet: Selected Writings

according application assurance become believe body calculation century certainty citizens College of Navarre common Condorcet consequences constitution contrary corruption corvée dangerous Descartes discovery election enlightened equality errors Essay established Estates-General exercise existence extended facts favor fear force France French French Revolution genius Grand Pensionary greater ground for belief happiness human mind human race ideas ignorance individual inequality influence interest Jacobin Club Johan de Witt judgment Julie de Lespinasse kind knowledge laws legislative less liberty limited majority marquis de Condorcet means methods moral nation national assembly natural rights necessarily necessary number of combinations object observation opinion peace perfection philosophers physical sciences political possible precision prejudices present preserve principles progress propositions public instruction pyrrhonism questions reason regarded result revolution scientific small number social mathematics Society of 1789 sophisms teaching theory true truth Turgot utility Voltaire voters votes wealth women