Gegen die Selbstrechtfertigung aus der Geistesgeschichte.
(John Locke: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱@Kristof_Poland
The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite
Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland
Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.
1. Where Rousseau is emotional, Voltaire is https://t.co/ObD72Gw96y
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