English summary: The first volume of the Elements d'ideologie contains Destutt de Tracy's naturalized Science des Idees. His opening question is: What is thinking? The question is answered with a systematic theory of sensibility, memory, judgment, will, time and human existence. Destutt de Tracy developed his position by studying Condillac's sensualism and in a critique of Kant. Intellectual capacities, which are based on sensations, and their perfection,...
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