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Reflections on the Sexual Revolution in France | Episode XXXVII

New Humanists

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What's the Appeal of a Revolution?

Rousseau pits abstractions like love of humanity against concrete realities. The ideals end up winning, he says. In large part, the French Revolution was led by the bourgeois class. It's people who can't trace their genealogy back to a thousand years ago. That's inconceivable until this moment.

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