Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 4
We are starting out with the first three chapters in Book 2 of Rousseau’s Social Contract this time.
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Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 3
This week, we are finishing up Book 1 of Rousseau’s Social Contract. Three more chapters, and unfortunately Rousseau repeats and confirms the unlimited power of the State in his framework.
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Elica Le Bon v. Her Reflection
There are a lot of ways to make a weak argument. One of the most common is to base your argument on some arbitrary selection–the endpoints of your graph, or a significant event. The problem is that such arguments are usually not universal, and can easily be turned back against you by a different arbitrary choice.
Part 2 of Critiquing Rousseau’s Social Contract
In chapters 5 and 6 of Book 1, Rousseau gives us his definition of the Social Contract.
It is a definition so fraught with self-contradictions and deliberately fuzzy thinking that it is frankly insane.
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Lies in Service of Power
Part 1 of my critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract
Here’s the first part of this next book I decided to go through: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famous (or infamous, if you’re like me) Social Contract.
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Blowback Farming Is Dangerous
When politicians make over-the-top declarations, or even when they say especially callous things, it is important to remember that any blowback their glib statements bring down will hit not them, but more likely the people they are seen to “represent.”