Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed:
“Reason is what engenders egocentrism and reflection strengthens it. Reason is what turns man in upon himself. Reason is what separates him from all that troubles him and afflicts him. Philosophy is what isolates him and what moves him to say in secret, at the sight of a suffering man, ‘Perish if you will; I am safe and sound.’”
For more on the implications of Rousseau’s anti-Enlightenment philosophy for postmodernism, see p. 103 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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