Condorcet's Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind
1795 · Work
Written in hiding with the guillotine waiting, Condorcet's posthumous history traces humanity through nine epochs and predicts a tenth of equality, reason and indefinite progress.
On these timelines: The Enlightenment, Arts and Thoughts, Master, France
More from The Enlightenment
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?' (1784)
- Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
- Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755)
- Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance (1763)
- The Paris salons (1720)
- Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
Around 1795
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1765)