Jean Jacques Rousseau

Voice of the Hidden Waterfall

Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Choral Music, Michael Stillwater, Aristotle, Shining Night Film, Morten Lauridsen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Human Nature, Culture News
Tamsin Smith

When I hear Morten Lauridsen's choral composition, I sense a boundless beauty and tenderness within the nature of humankind. Here, there is no place for evil. Perhaps his music is even the wind that would bend us to be better.

Read Post

"Occupy Rousseau" and Challenge Inequality in America

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Switzerland, Occupy Wall Street, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Democracy, Capitalism, Inequality, Eliot Spitzer, Thomas Kean, Global Occupy, Class War, Class Warfare, Occupy Movement, Income Inequality, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

Jean-Jacques Rousseau proclaimed in his Social Contract that men, though born free, were everywhere in chains. Astonishingly, three centuries later, inequality continues to dog capitalism and taint democracy's legitimacy -- worse now even than back then.

Read Post

Why does Rousseau matter today?

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Politics, Switzerland, Philosophy, Geneva, Nyc Events, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Democracy, Philosophers, New York News
The New York Public Library

This year, Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau turns 300. To celebrate, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and the City of Geneva ha...

Read Post

Ethiopia: Broken Contract, Broken Faith, Broken Country

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Revolution, Ethiopia Land Grabbing, Ethiopia Proclamation No. 272/2002, Ethiopia Land Speculation, Ethiopia Independent Judiciary, DLA Piper Ethiopia, Ethiopia Leaseholds, Moamar Gadhafi, Gambella Land Grab, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Meles Zenawi Contract, Ethiopia Five Year Contract, Addis Ababa Land Grab, EPDRF Contract, French Revolution, C?Est Moi, Saudi Star Agriculture Development Company, Ethiopia Social Contract, Ethiopia Mephistopheles., Ethiopia Indian Investors, Ethiopia Urban Land, Ethiopia Dick Armey, Contract With America, Thomas Hobbes, Ethiopia Contract, American Declaration of Independence, L?ÉTat, World News
Alemayehu G. Mariam

It isn't clear what Zenawi means in his repeated use of the word "contract" to describe the relationship between the people of Ethiopia and his party.

Read Post

What Is the Arab Third Estate?

Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: 1848, End of History, What Is the Third Estate, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Egypt Riots, Napoleon Bonaparte, Egypt Internet, Clash of Civilizations, Egyptian Revolution, Spring of Nations, Tunisia Protests, Egypt Revolution, The People Want to Bring Down the Regime, Tahrir Square, Thomas Hobbes, Nationalism, The Middle East, Social Contract, Ethnicity, Failed States, Abbé Sieyès, French Revolution, World News
Uriel Abulof

For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.

Read Post

Turning to the Enlightenment to Get Out of the Tiger Mother Dark Ages

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Francince Du Plessix Gray, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Madame De Stael, Emile, On the Social Contract, Tiger Mother, Or on Education, Healthy Living News
Nina Sankovitch

I don't care how you raise your kids. But for the sake of your kids' friends, teachers, and anyone with whom they come in contact now, can you just try to raise kids who are kind?

Read Post

Bush and Memoirs

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, How to Do Biography, Martin Luther, Memoirs, Decision Points, Xenophon, Autobiography, George W. Bush, Presidential Memoir, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, American Caesars, Biography, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

Former President Bush has written his recollections and there have been conflicting accounts of what, exactly, they are. Let me try and clarify the distinctions between the various genres of autobiography.

Read Post

What the BP Oil Spill Tells Us About Human Nature

Andrew Belonsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Deepwater Horizon, Enviornment, BP Oil Spill, News, Politics, Thomas Hobbes, Politics News
Andrew Belonsky

We have seen ecological disasters before, yet we continue to ignore experience and foresight, instead preferring to expand profits.

Read Post