Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean was an early mathematics protege and studied under Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. He was elected to represent Paris in the Legislative Assembly, but forced to flee during the Revolution for sympathizing with the Girondins. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat is best known work in mathematics and support of the French Revolution. Condorcet was a feminist and rationalist in France because his inspiration for fighting for the right of women was his widowed mother, he never gave up on fighting for women's civil rights, and he was a great mathematician and scientist. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat was born 1743 in Ribemont, France. His father, Antoine de Condorcet, was killed only weeks after he was born. Marquis …show more content…
Transhumanism is the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. Condorcet believed in and expressed a liberal economy he believed that people, both men and women, should be able to have free and equal public education and constitutionalism. Condorcet was the first to effectively use mathematical principles to study social science. Some people that Condorcet conversed or agreed with other rationalist and feminist such as, Olympe De Gouges (author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen), Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, etc. Condorcet and Olympe agreed with each other on the subject that all women should have the same rights as all men. They believed that a women’s purpose wasn’t just to take care of the children, cook all meals of the day, and clean the house but a women should also be able to work outside of her house and be a part of the political issues within the country. Marquis and Thomas Jefferson meet through a salon hosted by his wife’s aunt, Madame de Staël for him. At the salon many people from all over the world attended which made this salon an important venue. The salon was called the Revolution the Condorcet and the people who attended discussed their thoughts and ideas to improve. Another salon that Marquis De Condorcet associated with was the Girondus. When Marquis de Condorcet was closing his argument his political allies and friends stood up for him and took over for him. In his closing of his argument for female equality, he asks his critics to” show me a natural difference between men and women on which the exclusion could legitimately be based.” (McLean and Hewitt 1994, 339). He reassures men, “there is no need to fear that, just because women would be members of the National Assembly, they would immediately abandon