Here’s a series of interviews done by a young intellectual with one of the eminent interpreters of Rousseau in America, indeed the world, Christopher Kelly.
If I could have, I would have pushed a "love it!" button (instead of the like). "Save Rousseau from the ConservativeINC interpretation!" needs to be a new rallying cry. (I could name the architects of that skewed, one-sided, eventually misguided interpretation, but let the dead rest from their labors.) Merci, Titus.
"Technology doesn’t make for wisdom most of the time" Mmm, but since Rousseau's time it's made for some nice things, like cutting child mortality in half.
It was achieving that in his lifetime, too; but these are ambiguously good things if the babies saved turn into world war deaths, or people react to the safety of births with vast programs of abortion... & there are many other fearful things that deserve attention.
If I could have, I would have pushed a "love it!" button (instead of the like). "Save Rousseau from the ConservativeINC interpretation!" needs to be a new rallying cry. (I could name the architects of that skewed, one-sided, eventually misguided interpretation, but let the dead rest from their labors.) Merci, Titus.
If I walked into a room where Marx and Rousseau were both in, and I had a gun with ony two bullets, I'd shoot Rousseau, twice .
"Technology doesn’t make for wisdom most of the time" Mmm, but since Rousseau's time it's made for some nice things, like cutting child mortality in half.
It was achieving that in his lifetime, too; but these are ambiguously good things if the babies saved turn into world war deaths, or people react to the safety of births with vast programs of abortion... & there are many other fearful things that deserve attention.