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Rousseau Stoic & Romantic


Free Download Rousseau: Stoic & Romantic By Kennedy F. Roche
2019 | 4616 Pages | ISBN: 0367135183 | EPUB | 1 MB
This collection reissues 17 titles that provide an excellent overview of 18th century philosophy – as well as the debates that surround the topic. Featuring works on Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Rousseau, among others, the collection examines a host of philosophical arguments by the leading thinkers of the time. It is an essential reference collection.

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Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human


Free Download Paul Franco, "Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human"
English | ISBN: 022680030X | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 1166 KB
Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses of problems we still face.

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Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau The Jean-Jacques Problem


Free Download Matthew D. Mendham, "Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau: The Jean-Jacques Problem"
English | ISBN: 0812252837 | 2021 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
Why did Rousseau fail-often so ridiculously or grotesquely-to live up to his own principles? In one of the most notorious cases of hypocrisy in intellectual history, this champion of the joys of domestic life immediately rid himself of each of his five children, placing them in an orphans’ home. He advocated profound devotion to republican civic life, and yet he habitually dodged opportunities for political engagement. Finally, despite an elevated ethics of social duty, he had a pattern of turning against his most intimate friends, and ultimately fled humanity and civilization as such.

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