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Rousseau and the Problem of Modern Society
(It is Bastille Day – July 14, 2023 – the day that commemorates the French Revolution. On July 14, 1789, revolutionary elements stormed the Bastille, a symbol of dogmatic authority and political repression in the then Ancien Regime under King Louis XVI. This event is thought to have fully ushered in a new world,…
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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
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Abraham M. Keita 