…He was born as the eldest son of a noble family of liberal French aristocrats. He served in the military and distinguished himself in the American War of Independence. During the French Revolution, he made a huge fortune by selling state land, but was imprisoned and narrowly escaped the guillotine. During the Directory after the Thermidorian Reaction, he began writing, and in his Lettres d'un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains (1802) and Memoire sur la science de l'homme (1813), he advocated positivism and attempted to establish a social physiology as a scientific study of society. After the Restoration, he became absorbed in practical and real-world issues, and in his Réorganisation de la société européenne (1814), he advocated the establishment of a modern-day United Nations. … *Some of the terminology referenced in "Lettres d'un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…フランスの自由主義的名門貴族の長男に生まれ,軍職についてアメリカ独立戦争に参加して功を立て,フランス革命中には国有地売買で巨万の富を築いたが投獄され,危うくギロチンを免れる。テルミドール反動後の総裁政期に文筆の道に入り,《ジュネーブ住人の手紙Lettres d’un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains》(1802)から《人間科学覚書Mémoire sur la science de l’homme》(1813)にかけて実証主義を唱え,社会の科学的研究としての〈社会生理学〉の樹立を企てた。王政復古になると現実的・実践的問題に没頭し,《ヨーロッパ社会再組織論Réorganisation de la société européenne》(1814)で今日的な国際連合の設立を説いた。… ※「《Lettres d'un habitant de Genève à ses contemporains》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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