In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses Book 1 of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s 1762 work “Emile, or Education.” Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss political philosopher, noted for writing on social contract theory and the general will. He was a critic of modernity, city life and the Enlightenment; he was known for praising primitive life.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.