ABSTRACT
Starting from 1800, Jean Charles Leonard Sismondi was admitted to Coppet’s intellectual milieu, where he became a pivotal figure in the debate about liberties and human rights. Within Coppet’s relational network, Sismondi was able to benefit from the group’s singular vision of the many facets of life and sciences through political, economic, social, literary, and religious discourses. Coppet’s circle was another formative place that played a relevant role in combining different cultural perspectives in order to face practical and theoretical problems. Within Coppet’s relational network, Sismondi was able to benefit from the group’s singular vision of the many facets of life and sciences through political, economic, social, literary, and religious discourses. In Geneva, and especially within Coppet’s group, “exchanging words” was considered the core of a real experience of liberty within modern societies, which does not exclude the existence of moral and civil values but is rather based on them.
