Who among the following said of Rousseau, “Ardent apostle of Reason, he has done more than most to…
In his classic textbook Political Thought (1954), C.L. Wayper wrote of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Ardent apostle of Reason, he has done more than most to prepare the way for…
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Who among the following said of Rousseau, “Ardent apostle of Reason, he has done more than most to prepare the way for the age of unreason in which he live” ?
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In his classic textbook Political Thought (1954), C.L. Wayper wrote of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Ardent apostle of Reason, he has done more than most to prepare the way for the age of unreason in which he lived.” Wayper highlighted the paradox that although Rousseau belonged to the Enlightenment era, his emphasis on sentiment, conscience, and the organic general will foreshadowed Romanticism and later collectivist politics.
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