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| | DESTUTT DE TRACY, Antoine Louis Claude, Comte., A Treatise of Political Economy; to which is prefixed a supplement to a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | DESTUTT DE TRACY, Antoine Louis Claude, Comte., A Treatise of Political Economy; to which is prefixed a supplement to a preceding work on the understanding, or elements of ideology; with an analytical table, and an introduction on the faculty of the will. |
 | | Destutt de Tracy was born into a noble family of the ancien régime; he began life as a philosopher, concerned with the thought of Locke and Condillac, and ended up, it is said by Comte, having 'come closest to the positive state'. |
 | | Destutt de Tracy coined the term 'ideology' (by which he meant the science of ideas) to describe his philosophy, which embraced psychological, moral, economic and social phenomena: he concentrated primarily on economics because he thought that the purpose of society was to satisfy man's material needs and multiply his enjoyments. |
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