GROSSMAN (Mordecai).
The Philosophy of Helvetius with Special Emphasis on the Educational Implications of Sensationalism.
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).