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- Title
From Human Nature to Normal Humanity: Joseph de Maistre, Rousseau, and the Origins of Moral Statistics.
- Authors
Armenteros, Carolina
- Abstract
This article focuses on the origins of Moral Statistics. The rise of statistics as a state science in the early nineteenth century seems to have laid the tenets that the governmental institution of statistics was made possible by the cooperation between administrators and mathematicians in France, and this social change resulted philosophically in a direction away from the Enlightenment model of human nature. Joseph de Maistre and Jean-Jacques Rousseau have done much in this concern.
- Subjects
FRANCE; STATISTICS; ENLIGHTENMENT; MATHEMATICIANS; MAISTRE, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821; ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Publication
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2007, Vol 68, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0022-5037
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jhi.2007.0000