Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“Get up, my lord, you have great things to do today!”
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He was a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon.
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culture · French early socialist theorist (1760–1825) · philosopher · economist · journalist · historian · writer · sociologist · civil engineer · engineer · urban planner · politician · also Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, Henri de Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, Henri, Comte de Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri, Comte de Saint-Simon Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon Claude-Henri de Rouvroy
Born 17 October 1760 · Died 19 May 1825 · Q82934
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1908· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
As Lord of the World, from his friend and literary mentor Frederick Rolfe, who also introduced Monsignor Benson to the writings of Saint-Simon
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1858· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“Science de l'homme: Physiologie religieuse (1858), p. 437”
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1831· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin and Amand Bazard purchased the newspaper Le Globe as the official organ for their revolutionary fraternity Friends of the Truth
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1825· 8 entries
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Died 1825-05-19.
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“Original en inglés: «Politics is the science of production.”
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
His disciples formalized his ideas into a "Saint-Simonian" movement, emphasizing a planned economy, the abolition of inheritance, and the emancipation of women, who is widely regarded as the founder of French socialism a
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“Original en inglés: «True equality consists in each drawing benefits from society in exact proportion to his social outlay, that is to his real capacity, to the beneficent use he makes of his abilities. And this equality is the natural foundation of industrial society.”
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“No man has a right to free himself from the law of labour”
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“Original en inglés: «Today, for the first time since the existence of societies it is a question of organizing a totally new system; of replacing the celestial with the terrestrial, the vague by the positive, and the poetic by the real.”
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Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
His followers began to differ as to how to promulgate his ideas
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“Original en inglés: «The whole of society rests upon industry. Industry is the sole guarantee of its existence, the single source of all its wealth and all its prosperity. The state of things most favorable to industry is by that very reason the most favorable to society.”
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1821· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
“On Reconstruction of the European Community”
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1817· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon published a manifesto called the "Declaration of Principles" in his work titled L'Industrie ("Industry")
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1814· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon advocated that the united Europe which he envisioned should try to colonize the rest of the world: "To colonize the world with the European race, which is superior to every other race: to make the world acces
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1813· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
But with financial help from relatives, he had time to recover his health and gain some intellectual recognition in Europe
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1810· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
And Saint-Simon found himself poor again, and this time also in poor health
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1807· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
His second book, Introduction aux travaux scientifiques du XIX siècle
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1801· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
To Alexandrine-Sophie Goury de Champgrand, undertaken so that he might have a literary salon
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1760· 1 entry
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
Born 1760-10-17.
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