Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Anthony Pagden: The Enlightenment - And Why It Still Matters (Oxford University Press)

A generation or so ago, Anthony Pagden's book would not have needed a sub-title.The Enlightenment has never lacked for enemies, in church or state. It was denounced instantly for inspiring the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution, and for every ... [Published Herald Scotland - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Anthony Pagden, Oxford University Press, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Sayf al-Islam al-Qaddafi

Syria to Switzerland

The Arab world in the presence of the US and in its absence, by Amgad Rasmi in the pan Arab Asharq Al-AwsatCuriously, and perhaps somewhat provocatively the Geneva-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer of the 18th century whose ... [Published Al Ahram - May 16 2013]

Entities: Asharq Al-Awsat, Syria, Israel, Sayf al-Islam al-Qaddafi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Augustinians

English professor discusses the philosophy of happiness

Dim light and the echo of voices filled Cal State Fullerton’s Golleher Alumni House on Saturday, as Brian Michael Norton, an English professor, led a discussion about his new book titled Fiction and The Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the ... [Published Daily Titan - May 13 2013]

Entities: Denis Diderot, Rene Descartes, Calvinism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Augustinians

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

US Naval Academy

Tidings: Life is a beach

My pain free empathetic dentist, Malcom Dillon, usually suggests that I spend money on an implant, or a bridge, or a crown. When I told him I needed to delay my next visit because Kit and I were taking our grandson Nicholas to Hawaii, he said, "That's ... [Published Lake County Record Bee - May 09 2013]

Entities: Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, College of California, US Naval Academy, University of California Berkeley

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Gerald Warner: Egotists of the Enlightenment wreaked destruction on mankind

‘ENLIGHTENMENT values" is becoming the fashionable rallying cry for the zealots who espouse the "progressive" cause; from Will Hutton, who numbers "climate-change deniers" among contemporary enemies of the so-called Enlightenment, to the inevitable Richard ... [Published The Scotsman - May 05 2013]

Entities: Gerald Warner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, 18th century

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Conspiracy: Takeover of public education by liberalism ? 1860 to present

Calvin?s Commentary: To not understand history is to repeat it. It?s essential for us to understand why liberals think that Christians, Republicans and conservatives are stupid and less than the elitist liberal educated. Jay Leno, in his monologues frequently, ... [Published Beliefnet - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Takeover, Education, Conspiracy

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

New York University

Monitoring mental disorders in students could prevent future violence

The recent violence of the Boston Marathon bombers and of the Aurora Colorado theater premiering âThe Dark Knight Risesâ may be cause to evaluate some of Sigmund Freud?s psychoanalytic hypotheses. Freud?s works have demonstrated that, ?It is precisely ... [Published Washington Square News - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Sigmund Freud, Griswold v. Connecticut, Traffic Flow, New York University

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Curfew laws keep juveniles’ rights in the dark

The Escondido Police Department issued a curfew sweep for minors last week. The citywide ordinance prohibits minors from being out on the streets from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. According to the police department’s website, 25 juveniles were arrested as a result ... [Published Daily Aztec - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Juvenile, Crime, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

The Road to Same Sex Marriage

Since how we perceive reality is at stake in this struggle, the question inevitably rises: what is the nature of this reality? Is it good for us as human beings? Is it according to our Nature? Each side in the debate claims that what they are defending ... [Published Catholic Exchange - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Aristotle, Same-Sex Marriage

First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 1 reports

Lessons from the French on Marriage?

Perhaps the finest book ever written on the natural complementarity of the sexes and on marriage as the core building block of civil society was written by a Swiss who was then living in France. (The book is Emile, and the author is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.) ... [Published The Weekly Standard Blog - Jan 18 2013]

Entities: Oscar Lopez, Gay, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Homosexuality, France

First reported Jan 12 2013 - Updated Jan 12 2013 - 1 reports

Author Francesca Cernia Slovin returns to the world of literature with “Paris at Night”

New Novel, a Love Story, is a Poignant Exploration of the Essence of Life and Love A searing portrait of a relationship that almost never was, Francesca Cernia Slovin’s “Paris at Night, A Love Story” gives an unflinching glance at the fulcrum where the ... [Published PRWeb - Jan 12 2013]

Entities: Cernia, Xlibris, Aby Warburg, Paris, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First reported Dec 11 2012 - Updated Dec 11 2012 - 1 reports

The commercial republic: a contradiction in terms?

Republican thinking today relies heavily on a classical conception of citizenship. Can this ever be compatible with modern commercial society? If there are resources in republicanism for re-thinking the contemporary economicorder, it might be worth ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Dec 11 2012]

Entities: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Luxury, Inequality, Philip Pettit

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