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    Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an award winning proposal by Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceived with the intent of addressing the “potentially purifying effects upon morals through the restoration of the arts and sciences.” [p. 1] Rousseau examines the concept of measuring our own self worth with the ability to perform in a manner deemed worthy of the rest of societies approbation. This is explored as Rousseau describes the consequences of “perceiving the principal advantage of an intercourse

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    Social Foundations III Study Questions Lesson 1. Brinton‚ The Enlightenment (NYU Classes) 1. What is an example‚ according to Brinton‚ of an unnatural‚ artificial way of life that leads to dissatisfaction and discontent? Do you agree that a person’s lifestyle could be unnatural? Class distinction‚ Religious values and social etiquette 2. In your opinion‚ can we understand what is best for people through reason and science‚ and therefore what will make people happiest? Can psychologists help

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    In the story “The Worst mistake in the History of the Human Race” Diamond raised several different key points about the arrival of agriculture. Diamond‚ Rousseau and Gray was not fond on agriculture‚ but throughout the story they mention how agriculture was bad for humankind because it increased calorie quantity at the cost of quality‚ because it contributed to deep class divisions. Despite its chances of dividing everyone into different groups; the arrival of agriculture is what everyone needed

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    affecting the present with their thought and ideas. Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau are two notable philosophers from two different times that have two different views of the responsibilities of our government. Rousseau’s view of government is that it is determined by the individual. He believed that this would be an ever-evolving social contract and subject to the intellectual growth of the individual. Rousseau contended that government and laws are a hindrance‚

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    Bibliography: * Phaedo‚ 82c; and The Republic‚ book VII‚ 518d‚ both in Plato‚ Complete Works‚ ed. JohnM.Cooper * Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) Émile (1911 edn.)‚ London: Dent‚ pp.6.

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    London: George Routledge and Sons‚ 2003. Macintyre‚ Alasdair. A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. Indiana: Univ of Notre Dame Pr‚ 1998. RousseauJean-Jacques. The Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract‚ Confessions‚ Emile‚ and Other Essays . Texas: Halcyon Press Ltd‚ 2009. Suber‚ P. The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions. New York :Routledge‚ 1998. -------------------------------------------- [ 2 ]. Peter Suber

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    Thesis: To discuss the philosophers who participated and had an affect in The Age of Reason. OUTLINE I. David Hume A. Contributions to the Age of Reason B. Who and what influenced him II. Jean Jacques Rousseau A. What he believed in B. Who influenced him III. Claude Adrien Helvetius A. Influences B. Reasons for contribution IV. Immanuel Kant A. How he made a difference B. Why he made a difference C. What caused him to make a difference V. Johann Fichte A. Influences

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    DBQ Assignment Agree or disagree with the following statement: Despite the violence and terror‚ the French Revolution was based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. I agree with the statement that the violent and terror filled French revolution was in fact based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. John Locke is one of the most well known philosophers during the Enlightenment. John Locke states that "…if a long train of abuses‚ prevarications‚ and artifices‚ all tending the same way‚ make the

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    means of production in society. One of Marx’s critiques on political economy is the invention of private property in society‚ as well as the estrangement that labor within the capitalistic mode of production produces. Other philosophers such as Rousseau and Adam Smith have established a concept of

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    employee detailing issues such as hours‚ salary and benefit plans. However‚ other aspects of the employment relationship are likely to be confined to the subconscious (Spindler 1994). The term psychological contract (Argyris 1960; Schein 1980; Rousseau 1989) refers to a commonly used exchange concept providing a framework for understanding the ‘hidden’ aspects of the relationship between organisations and their employees (Shore & Tetrick 1994). The common theme underlying these definitions

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