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Rousseau's First Discourse Live at ACTC | The New Thinkery Ep. 40

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Is the Social Contract a Fragment for a Reason?

Rousseau, unlike Marx, does not think happiness can be found in a sort of final political state. The idea that reason needs to understand its own limits and therefore stick to them is it Rousseau is really concerned with the vanity of the intellect. Tom Cleveland: "We hope that both can appreciate some of what we're doing"

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