Les Confessions de Rousseau
I would like to read autobiographies, although there are actually not many autobiographies to read.
Has anybody here ever read Les Confessions before? Have you ever feel there are some surprising similarities between Rousseau and yourself?
Which type of psychosis could J-J Rousseau have?
Did you enjoy the book?
I have just started to read this again,"I conceived nothing, but known anything" Rousseau was so when he was five.
i have not read this, but did read the social contract a number of years ago. i generally felt this book is founded upon a contradiction. the following text very lucidly puts forward a criticism that reflects my own thinking better than i could attempt...
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_ar ... sseau.html
[quote=bakunin"]The state is in no wise an immediate product of nature. Unlike society, it does not precede the awakening of reason in men. The liberals say that the first state was created by the free and rational will of men; the men of the right consider it the work of God. In either case it dominates society and tends to absorb it completely...[/quote]
These are truly terrible words, for they have corrupted and dishonoured, within official ranks and in society's ruling classes, more men than has even Christianity itself. No sooner are these words uttered than all grows silent, and everything ceases; honesty, honour, justice, right, compassion itself ceases, and with it logic and good sense. Black turns white, and white turns black. The lowest human acts, the basest felonies, the most atrocious crimes become meritorious acts...
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?Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.?
Adam Smith