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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instanceOf epistemological school ⓘ
philosophical movement ⓘ
associatedConcept analysis of mental faculties into sensations ⓘ
psychological analysis ⓘ
reduction of complex ideas to simple sensations ⓘ
sensation as source of ideas ⓘ
sensualism ⓘ
centralWork Traité des sensations ⓘ
centralWorkAuthor Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ⓘ
coreClaim all human knowledge derives from sensory experience ⓘ
mental operations are transformations of sensations ⓘ
countryOfOrigin France ⓘ
era Age of Enlightenment ⓘ
Early modern philosophy ⓘ
fieldOfInfluence aesthetics ⓘ
ethics ⓘ
political philosophy ⓘ
hasKeyFigure Claude Adrien Helvétius ⓘ
linked to: Helvétius

Denis Diderot ⓘ
Destutt de Tracy ⓘ
Julien Offray de La Mettrie ⓘ
Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis ⓘ
linked to: François Magendie

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac ⓘ
historicalContext French Enlightenment ⓘ
inception 18th century ⓘ
influenced 19th-century French philosophy ⓘ
French materialism ⓘ
educational theory in France ⓘ
psychology in France ⓘ
influencedBy British empiricism ⓘ
Enlightenment ⓘ
John Locke ⓘ
empiricism ⓘ
language French ⓘ
mainRegion France ⓘ
opposedTo innate ideas ⓘ
rationalist epistemology ⓘ
philosophicalDiscipline epistemology ⓘ
philosophy of mind ⓘ
psychology ⓘ
philosophicalStance anti-innatism ⓘ
empiricism about ideas ⓘ
relatedSchool British empiricism ⓘ
linked to: Empiricism

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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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac → influenced → French sensualist school ⓘ