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Episode 95: Paul Franco - Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human

The Political Theory Review

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The Genealogical Critique of Modern Enlightenment

i was struck that, in reading rousseau, that he actually uses ti ti phrase, that he has written a genealogy of vice. And i was much taken withe with the juxtaposition of his gene ancestry of vice with, of course, the title of one of nature's books, the genealogy morality. Soa, as far as rousseau is concerned, i use these two genealogies to t both bring out long ones of what we were just talking about: how civilization and history have somehow corrupted that original, pristine human nature.

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