Has modern society made us better?

Thursday, October 6, 2022


Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1753. San Quentin: Musée Antoine Lécuyer

Read before class:

  • Kant, What is Enlightenment, 1784 (CP 44-47)
  • Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The Social Contract, (The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings, hereafter CMRW 1-19, ICCW 1269-1282, 1295-1306)