Paper's abstract

Xavier Martin, French Lumières and Human Interiority
The sensationist empiricism which governed the French Lumières, led them to consider human interiority as open without restraint, morally as well as technically, to investigations and manipulations. The totalitarian aspect of the French Revolution will fall directly in line with the logic of this postulate.

Key Words : Lumières, interiority, empiricism
t. 44, 2000 : p. 273-283

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