People

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas-Caritat marchese di Condorcet 1743-1794 - France

Encyclopedia Entries

Encarta Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nichola

Encyclopedia Britannica Condorcet, Marquis de

Wikipedia Condorcet, Marquis de

Columbia Encyclopedia Condorcet, Marquis de

Questions of 

Reading

Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain (1795; tr. Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind, 1955). In that work Condorcet traced human development through nine epochs to the French Revolution and predicted in the 10th epoch the ultimate perfection of man.

Writing available on the net

On Public Instruction

Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind

The Future Progress of the Human Mind

Commentaries

Condorcet History of Economic Thought

Marquis de Condorcet MacTutor History of Mathematics

See studies by K. M. Baker (1982), L. Rosenfield (1984), and E. Rothschild (2001).

Quotations

"Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors. One would look in vain for reasons to justify it, by differences in physical constitution, intelligence, moral sensibility. This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms."
[The Future Progress of the Human Mind]