Date of Award
11-1978
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
Supervisor
G. J. Grinnell.
Language
English
Abstract
An examination of Buffon's theories of natural history and Physiocratic doctrines, which treats them as products of the same socio-economic pressures; that is, as responses to the pressures created by the material requirements of the French war-machine and by the necessity of reconciling aristocratic and bourgeois ethical systems. Includes a study of the use of Newtonian ideas to undermine the social, economic and moral foundations of the Ancien Regime end to justify man's domination of nature.
Recommended Citation
Rowles, Catherine Mary Clegg, "Buffon, The Physiocrats And The Rule Of Nature." (1978). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5830.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/5830
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