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Cientista reconhecido, desde 1765, quando publicou sua obra, Ensaio sobre o
clculo integral, ele deixou sua marca na histria da matemtica e da aturia. Em
1769, entrou na Academia das Cincias de Paris. Em 1782 entrou para a Academia
Francesa. Mais tarde foi o primeiro autor a defender um sistema previdencirio com
base na repartio simples intergeracional. Ele pode ser considerado um dos
fundadores da cincia Aturia e um defensor do sistema de proteo social, da paz,
da educao universal e dos direitos das minorias raciais e dos idosos. Enfim, um
protagonista da luta pelos direitos humanos.
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explica sua defesa da cidadania das mulheres na Assembleia Nacional. O texto
uma verdadeira aula sobre equidade de gnero (pena que o presidente Michel
Temer no tenha hbito de ler esse tipo de literatura, que seria de grande valia para
qualquer discurso no Dia Internacional da Mulher).
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mulher em 1792. O Marqus de Condorcet era casado com Sophie Marie Louise de
Grouchy (1764-1822) e costuma receber em sua casa em Paris figuras ilustres da
Frana e do resto do mundo, inclusive as proto-feministas Olympe de Gouges e
Mary Wollstonecraft.
Portanto, no cabe a pergunta de onde est falando e de que tempo est falando,
quando se trata da defesa de um direito universal. Nem cabe questionar a
apropriao cultural. O fato que um homem esclarecido e sensvel foi um dos
pioneiros fundamentais dos ideais do feminismo moderno.
Referncias:
ALVES, J. E. D. A polmica Malthus versus Condorcet reavaliada luz da transio
demogrfica. Textos para Discusso. Escola Nacional de Cincias Estatsticas, Rio de
Janeiro, v. 4, p. 1-56, 2002.
http://www.ence.ibge.gov.br/images/ence/doc/publicacoes/textos_para_discussao/te
xto_4.pdf
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, The First Essay on the
Political Rights of Women. A Translation of Condorcets Essay Sur ladmission des
femmes aux droits de Cit (On the Admission of Women to the Rights of
Citizenship). By Dr. Alice Drysdale Vickery (with preface and remarks) (Letchworth:
Garden City Press, 1912).
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http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/condorcet-on-the-admission-of-women-to-the-rights-
of-citizenship
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i But the rights of men result simply from the fact that they are rational, sentient beings,
susceptible of acquiring ideas of morality, and of reasoning concerning those ideas.
Women having, then, the same qualities, have necessarily the same rights. Either no
individual of the human species has any true rights, or all have the same; and he or she
who votes against the rights of another, whatever may be his or her religion, colour, or
sex, has by that fact abjured his own. It would be difficult to prove that women are
incapable of exercising the rights of citizenship. Although liable to become mothers of
families, and exposed to other passing indispositions, why may they not exercise rights of
which it has never been proposed to deprive those persons who periodically suffer from
gout, bronchitis, etc.? Admitting for the moment that there exists in men a superiority of
mind, which is not the necessary result of a difference of education (which is by no means
proved, but which should be, to permit of women being deprived of a natural right
without injustice), this inferiority can only consist in two points. It is said that no woman
has made any important discovery in science, or has given any proofs of the possession
of genius in arts, literature, etc.; but, on the other hand, it is not pretended that the rights
of citizenship should be accorded only to men of genius. It is added that no woman has
the same extent of knowledge, the same power of reasoning, as certain men; but what
results from that? Only this, that with the exception of a limited number of exceptionally
enlightened men, equality is absolute between women and the remainder of the men;
that this small class apart, inferiority and superiority are equally divided between the two
sexes. But since it would be completely absurd to restrict to this superior class the rights
of citizenship and the power of being entrusted with public functions, why should women
be excluded any more than those men who are inferior to a great number of women?
(Condorcet, 03/07/1790, p. 1).