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Claude-Adrien Helvetius, 1715-1771. French Enlightenment philosopher and participant in Diderot's Encyclopedia project. Hedonist and materialist thinker, especially known for his egoistic views on ethics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetius
Wikipedia entry containing material from the 1911 Britannica.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/helvetiu/
Brief entry on this French thinker from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Tracy/ddtMSL28.html
Two letters by the scholar, translated by Thomas Jefferson.
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