Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ( born September 30, 1714 Grenoble, † August 3, 1780 in Flux at Beaugency ) was a French clergyman ( Abbe de MUREAUX ), philosopher and logician in the Age of Enlightenment. From John Locke starting, this reconnaissance developed a sensualist epistemology.
Life and work
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably His father (1666-1727) and his mother was a Madame de la Coste (* 1675) except Étienne Bonnot de Condillac had more children Jean Bonnot de Mably ( 1696-1761 ), Anne Bonnet ( * ca 1698 ) François Bonnot de Saint Marcellin (1700-1785), Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Georges Joseph Bonnot (* 1711).
De Condillac suffered up to the age of twelve to a chronic eye disease which affected his learning efforts in terms of reading and interrupting him in later years, as the consequences of the disease, repeatedly forced his literary activities.
In Paris he regularly visited the salon of Claudine Guérin de Tencin. As Jean -Jacques Rousseau departed on 10 July 1742 by Lyon to Paris, he met in the French capital later banker Daniël Roguin from Yverdon kennen.Über this acquaintance he came into contact with Denis Diderot and closed with this friendship. In Lyon, Rousseau worked as a tutor and teacher of the children of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, brother of de Condillac. Through Rousseau, Diderot, in turn, de Condillac met. Rousseau, de Condillac and Diderot met regularly and dined in the Panier fleuri. There, the three developed the plan to publish a literary - critical journal, it should be published with the title Le Persifleur. Rousseau edited the first edition, a second but no more appeared.
In Traité des systèmes (1749 ) distinguishes Condillac characters that are related to the subject accident, natural and artificial characters or conditional character ( spoken and written ). The secret of knowledge is the proper application of this character. By breaking down complex concepts into their simplest elements to avoid errors.
1754 results in Condillac 's Traité des sensations all functions of the soul ( emotions, desires, volitions ) on the underlying feelings back. The sensation itself and the psychological experience were intellectualized of him. The mind sees more than meets the eye, writes Condillac.
In 1757 he was appointed to Parma, there to take over the education of Prince and Crown Prince Ferdinand, later Ferdinand (Parma ). He accepted this task for nine years, at the same time with Auguste de Keralio (1715-1805), the " moral education " worked for the purposes of the Enlightenment.
In the works la ou les premiers logique Developments de l'art de penser (1780 ) and La langue of calculs (1798 ) Condillac is based on the thesis of the indivisibility of thought and language and explains the development of speech acts. By breaking down the action for the purpose of communication - and thus by dissection of ideas whose characters are such acts, is the language of the act for the analytical method.
Together is de Condillac and Diderot that both summarize the language very well. So both understand by any form of human communicative utterances, for example, whether facial expressions, gestures or the melodic- rhythmic vocal line, so the articulate language than just a way of human expression is seen. Language, however, is more inspired by Diderot to the emotive, the emotions, and thus to the art of poetry and music, as in rational thinking and logic.
Knowledge is interpreted in Condillac in his logic as a safe conclusion on rational grounds, which has more than just probability.