GROSSMAN (Mordecai).

The Philosophy of Helvetius with Special Emphasis on the Educational Implications of Sensationalism.

First edition. 8vo. \[6\], 181, \[1\] pp. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, dust jacket (a few occasional neat pencilled marginal annotations, contents otherwise generally clean; jacket slightly edge worn with minor chipping to tips of spine and corners, short closed tear to foot of front turn-in fold, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed). New York, Teachers College, Columbia University, Bureau of Publications, 1926.

£150.00

Inscribed by the author ‘Compliments of the author Mordecai Grossman’ in black ink to the front free endpaper.

A valuable study of the philosophy of education in the works of the French Enlightenment thinker Claude Adrien Helvetius. Following Locke’s conception of mind as tablula rasa, Helvétius ‘considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction … Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education’ (Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, p. 749).

Stock No.
253153
Mailing List

Mailing List

Be the first to receive catalogues, short lists and news from our booksellers
Subscribe