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

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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