History of Ideas: Montaigne
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Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sobor
Montaigne says it's miserable to be one of those human beings expected to somehow live in the world as though we were masters of our own destiny. He was extraordinarily socially fortunate in an age where almost no one had what he had and you had to have what he had to lead the life he led. Montaigne: "We should be suspicious of all schemes that say there's a way of being human and something more than human"
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