Code de la Nature

by Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

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

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.