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While crediting Condillac with the creation of ideology, and Cabanis with its further development, Destutt de Tracy proceeded to introduce his own variation upon it.
IDEOLOGY MOSTAFA REJAI 1968
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Destutt de Tracy went further by directly viewing ideology as a part of zoology.
IDEOLOGY MOSTAFA REJAI 1968
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Tracy, Destutt, his "Economie Politique" translated by Jefferson, 331.
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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To sum up: Destutt de Tracy classes together the external productions of Nature and art, and the powers or faculties of man, making both of them species of property; and upon this equivocation he hopes to establish, so firmly that it can never be disturbed, the right of property.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Destutt de Tracy seems to dislike prudence in either form.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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The possession of things was likened to property in the powers of the body and mind; and on this false analogy was based the right of property, -- the imitation of Nature by art, as Destutt de Tracy so elegantly puts it.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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His reasoning seems to be borrowed from Destutt de Tracy.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Destutt de Tracy and Cabanis were their most conspicuous leaders in this generation.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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Destutt de Tracy seems to dislike prudence in either form.
What is Property? 1837
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Destutt-Tracy is, in my judgment, the ablest writer living on intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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