French sensualist school
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The French sensualist school was an 18th-century philosophical movement that held all human knowledge derives from sensory experience, prominently developed by thinkers such as Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epistemological school
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philosophical movement ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
analysis of mental faculties into sensations
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psychological analysis ⓘ reduction of complex ideas to simple sensations ⓘ sensation as source of ideas ⓘ sensualism ⓘ |
| centralWork | Traité des sensations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralWorkAuthor | Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
all human knowledge derives from sensory experience
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mental operations are transformations of sensations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Enlightenment
NERFINISHED
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Early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| fieldOfInfluence |
aesthetics
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ethics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Claude Adrien Helvétius
NERFINISHED
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Denis Diderot NERFINISHED ⓘ Destutt de Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Julien Offray de La Mettrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis NERFINISHED ⓘ Étienne Bonnot de Condillac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | French Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century French philosophy
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French materialism ⓘ educational theory in France ⓘ psychology in France ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
British empiricism
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Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ John Locke ⓘ empiricism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainRegion | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
innate ideas
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rationalist epistemology ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
epistemology
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philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
anti-innatism
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empiricism about ideas ⓘ |
| relatedSchool |
British empiricism
NERFINISHED
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associationism ⓘ |
| viewOnEducation | education should be based on sensory experience ⓘ |
| viewOnKnowledge | knowledge constructed from sensory impressions ⓘ |
| viewOnMind | mind as originally a passive recipient of sensations ⓘ |
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