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To: SeekAndFind; ProgressingAmerica
How does this apply to Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

21 posted on 01/17/2020 9:33:23 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

J-J lamented Western alienation from Nature, and advocated moving back towards animal existence, which to him involved more emotion, less rationalism.


24 posted on 01/17/2020 9:51:23 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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I’d like to know how you got to Rousseau.


29 posted on 01/17/2020 4:38:25 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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