Etienne-Gabriel Morelly

Etienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717-?) philosophe French was a .

Morelly is the “forgotten philosopher” of the Lumières. By the little of writings which it left (except the Code of Nature , published in 1755) and uncertainty concerning its true identity (one often said that Denis Diderot and Morelly would be the same person, and the Code of Nature was allotted to Diderot until the beginning of), its existence and its thought is badly known.

However, it seems well that Morelly is a philosopher with whole share with the direction where it would be the first to have developed a philosophy of the Socialisme, even of the Communisme. In the Code of nature , it stigmatizes the private property like person in charge of the misfortune of the men and sets up a primitive form of utopian Communisme. It enacts the " three fundamental laws and crowned which would cut root to the defects and all the evils of a société":

• Abolition of the private property

• official System organizing education, the assistance and solidarity
• System of co-operation not without pointing out the aphorism of St-Simon " Of each one according to its capacities, with each one according to its oeuvres"