Code de la Nature

by Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

"Code de la Nature" de Etienne-Gabriel Morelly. ecrivain, philosophe (XIXeme siecle).

Genres: Political Science

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2010

About the author

Utopian thinker and novelist. An otherwise "obscure tax official", Morelly wrote two books on education and a critique of Montesquieu. As well he is thought to be (perhaps erroneously) the author of The Code of Nature, which was published anonymously in France in 1755. This book, a basis of thought for later socialist and Communist thinkers, criticized the society of his day, promoted a social order without avarice and proposed a constitution intended to lead to an egalitarian society without property, marriage, church or police.