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

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What Is the Second Discourse?

David Frum: In Gerevus, there's a couple of points where he seems to start to tread on the territory of the second discourse. He says that goes back to man in the simplest times prior to any civilization in the state of nature. Frum: The whole idea of vanity and amoprop requires this more thoroughgoing analysis of our sort of natural happiness in thestate of nature.

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