Summary of Book 1 of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract
In Book I of the In the Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau starts by defining his project. It is a question of finding a rule of administration which is legitimate and …
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Voltaire – Publicity and rage of fanaticism
For the Enlightenment, of which Voltaire was a part, publicity – that is, making something public, and absolutely not the contemporary sense of promoting an object or a service – is an essential attribute …
Machiavelli – The Prince must know how to feign and conceal
The Arcana imperii: these secrets of the empires are mercilessly put in the scene in the Tartuffe of Molière. The duplicity, the hypocrisy, is the springs used for this play. …
Poverty Revolution
It is a common idea that revolution and war are the offspring of poverty. Alain, Remarks, 1926 In other words, are revolutions the consequence of poverty? Alain (1868–1951) was a …
Role of the 3 educations for Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education is one of the most important exam questions for Jean-Jacques Rousseau. According to him, education is the key to forming responsible and free citizens in a democratic society. In …
The Panopticon: a place of surveillance
The place of surveillance par excellence was theorized by Jeremy Bentham in his book Panopticon, in 1791. The issue is to make observation the most important point of detention. Michel …