The Abbé Condillac was a leading figure of the Enlightenment. Trained for a religious life, he did not take the habit and completed his education in science and pedagogy. His active academic life led him to be presented as preceptor to the nephew of Louis XV in Parma. There he wrote his 13-volume publication entitled “Cours d’études pour l’instruction du Prince de Parme” in which he was to train the young monarch. His enormous interest in pedagogy enabled him to present a method that he himself pointed out as novel and relevant for training the prince. In this case, the fragment highlights his empiricist side, where he calls on the prince to know things through experience in order to obtain true knowledge of things as opposed to already established systems. The structure of his publication also draws from another great preceptor, the abbé Fénelon, who had trained the grandsons of Louis XIV and the dauphin of France.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/28506/1/RHM_20.pdf

Resource type: Historical source

Source: 1. CONDILLAC, E.B., Cours d’Ètudes, Discours Préliminaire, en LEROY, G., Oeuvres philosophiques de Condillac, vol, I, París 1947,p. 398

Language: Spanish

Date: 1773

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: 1. CONDILLAC, E.B., Cours d’Ètudes, Discours Préliminaire, en LEROY, G., Oeuvres philosophiques de Condillac, vol, I, París 1947,p. 398

Abstract: Fragment of text in which Condillac calls on Ferdinand of Bourbon to learn the sciences by experience through observation

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