In making this argument, Gerson suggested that Trump’s politics borrows unconsciously from the 18 th century Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ... to assault the poor and confiscate ...

And in order to understand the tension between Twitter-reach and equality it is worth turning to a political thinker who was preoccupied with the subtleties of popular communication: Jean-Jacques ...

No Enlightenment thinker observing our current predicament from the afterlife would be able to say “I told you so” as confidently as Jean-Jacques Rousseau ... robbed by the poor, the better ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known as the ... goodness through an education that does not corrupt. Pity poor Émile! He is subjected in Rousseau's work to the most extreme form imaginable of what ...

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques_Rousseau_%28painted_portrait%29.jpg) This is a guest post by DePaul political scientist David Lay Williams. He is ...

Jean-Jacques ... But Rousseau looked to a society of free, educated people, a society populated by individuals like his literary creation Emile, to recognize what was best for all — the common good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas ... the solidification of private property now legally entrenched the inequalities between rich and poor. For Rousseau, humans were fundamentally noble, but private ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) on the education of children, as set out in his novel or treatise Emile, published in 1762. He held that ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known as the ... goodness through an education that does not corrupt. Pity poor Émile! He is subjected in Rousseau's work to the most extreme form imaginable of what ...