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When did Jean-Jacques Rousseau's first album release?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's first album Discourse on the Arts and Sciences released in 1750.
Rousseau was an 18th century idol of the Hippie movement. He advocated a return to the “state of nature”, which unlike Thomas Hobbes) he considered superior to modern civilization. While Hobbes, in Leviathan (here) advocated the authoritarian state on the claim that life without it is “nasty, brutal, and short”, Rousseau advocated a very... Read More
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