Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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Page 39
... Rousseau's ideas is well known and I am not going to repeat it here . All I want to do is to remind the reader that Rousseau failed to bring about what he hoped for , and so too did the whole tradition which followed him ; and I want to ...
... Rousseau's ideas is well known and I am not going to repeat it here . All I want to do is to remind the reader that Rousseau failed to bring about what he hoped for , and so too did the whole tradition which followed him ; and I want to ...
Page 49
... Rousseau quoted this in his essay on in- equality , and his whole intent was to show that this isn't true , that the child is innocent and does evil in a number of clumsy and unintentional ways . But this is just what Hobbes was driving ...
... Rousseau quoted this in his essay on in- equality , and his whole intent was to show that this isn't true , that the child is innocent and does evil in a number of clumsy and unintentional ways . But this is just what Hobbes was driving ...
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... Rousseau in Chapter Three , it would seem that , with its emphasis on differences in personal quali- ties as the ... Rousseau's essay , picking out its brilliant insights or its ludicrous ones based on a fanciful anthropology , but will ...
... Rousseau in Chapter Three , it would seem that , with its emphasis on differences in personal quali- ties as the ... Rousseau's essay , picking out its brilliant insights or its ludicrous ones based on a fanciful anthropology , but will ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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