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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Question of Science in the Second Discourse
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Livingstone—Unscientific Character of the Second Discourse
reductionism of man’s nature that flows from its application to the study of man, does not
permit one to affirm the opposite, that he is a closet Platonists who believes in a
teleological cosmos in which philosophy is the highest life. But others before me have
come close to asserting that conclusion based on different evidence. And so I hope that
the research I have presented here, which is part of larger project of following out
Rousseau’s hidden intentions, will facilitate that ongoing discussion.
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with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages, Victor Gourevitch trans. and ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 5, 66.
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See, for instance, Christopher Kelly, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One’s Life to the Truth
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Leonard Sorenson, “Natural Inequality and Rousseau’s’ Political Philosophy in His Discourse on Inequality.” The Western Political Quarterly 43, no.4 (1990): 763-88.
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Livingstone—Unscientific Character of the Second Discourse
reductionism of man’s nature that flows from its application to the study of man, does not
permit one to affirm the opposite, that he is a closet Platonists who believes in a
teleological cosmos in which philosophy is the highest life. But others before me have
come close to asserting that conclusion based on different evidence. And so I hope that
the research I have presented here, which is part of larger project of following out
Rousseau’s hidden intentions, will facilitate that ongoing discussion.
with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages, Victor Gourevitch trans. and ed. (New
York: Harper and Row, 1986), 5, 66.
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See, for instance, Christopher Kelly, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One’s Life to the Truth
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Leonard Sorenson, “Natural Inequality and Rousseau’s’
Political Philosophy in His Discourse on Inequality.” The Western Political Quarterly 43, no.4 (1990): 763-
88.
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