Ep. 11: Rousseau's "First Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
Combat and Classics Podcast
English - August 07, 2017 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsCourses Education Society & Culture Philosophy education history literature military philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep. 10: Anton Chekhov's "The Student"
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Jeff, Lise, and Brian are joined by the distinguished Dylan Casey and Wes Alwan for this crossover episode with the Partially Examined Life. They discuss the First Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, in which Rousseau argues that the arts and sciences tend to lead to "moral corruption". What is "moral corruption"? What does it mean for a human being to be "whole"? How can a society be structured to allow individual humans to achieve wholeness? What role do the arts and sciences play in that endeavor? Join the group for a lively discussion of those questions and more!
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