Claude-Adrien Helvétius

1715 - 1771

About the Author

Helvétius was a French philosopher who defended a materialist theory of human nature in which all human action is determined by the surroundings. His book De l’homme (1758) could not be published in his lifetime.

In The Library:

• author: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s ’Spirit of Laws’ (1811)