Lecture 06: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau
This is one of my favorite lectures, the story of how three men accomplished a political revolution paralleling the scientific revolution of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. These three men were the Englishmen Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the Swiss-Frenchman, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The ideas that united them (Enlightenment ideas) and the concepts that divided them are related in this podcast, and I think that you will find them equally intriguing and formative of the future.
Lecture 06 Vodcast This video podcast has been compressed for faster download.
posted by Dr. Reiman @ 12:14 PM
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This is precisely the problem with Rousseau. He never explained his ideas or reconciled the contradictions inherent in them because they are unexplainable. You can't untangle them and make sense out of them. That was why he was called the first romantic. he was not rational.
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