
60. Reinventing the leviathan + learning from history w/ Jon Hillis
On The Other Side
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Is There a Space for Testing Rousseau's Ideas?
I think something that is very promising about reading original works as well is this idea and you call it out in the article too of seeing these thinkers as intellectual peers, which I think is really, really interesting. It's so easy to put this stuff on a pedestal, you know, and it'd be like, Oh, this is some grand thing that is like an untouchable work of history. So now we're moving into a space where perhaps what we need to actually start putting these things into place exists or at least the framework for testing these things exists. Yeah. You know, luckily, I was very fortunate to have a professor named Toon Mient who studied under Eleanor
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