Word: rousseau
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...finding a gorgeous girl in a remote mountain village weren't miracle enough, the boys make an even more amazing discovery: a hidden cache of translated foreign novels by Dostoyevsky, Rousseau and, of course, Balzac. The effect the writings have on Luo and Ma is revolutionary. They undergo an intellectual and romantic awakening that stokes the inevitable sexual one. Soon the boys are smoking like Continental philosophers and making grand statements about love and human nature; in other words, they begin behaving like the college freshmen they would have been were it not for the Cultural Revolution. (Good thing they...
...gentle giant of liberalism, who changed the study of political philosophy from one of logic and science to one concerned primarily with social and moral justice; in Lexington, Mass. The longtime Harvard professor's 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, revived the idea--promoted by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau but abandoned for much of the 20th century--of the social contract: the idea that society should be built on a mutually beneficial agreement among its members. His views on ethics and the rights of individuals have influenced the debate on affirmative action, welfare and assisted suicide...
...wouldn’t have gone in for rankings, but his work has a place among the greatest tradition of moral and political philosophy and that would include Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau. I expect his work to continue to be studied for the indefinite future,” said Cohen, whose dissertation was advised by Rawls...
...Mind Works and The Language Instinct--will rightly guess that his latest effort is similarly sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, richly footnoted and fun to read. It's also highly persuasive. The view that environment is paramount began, he says, with the philosophers of the Enlightenment: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes and John Stuart Mill. And it was reinforced in the 1950s by Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, who said that all human behavior was simply a set of conditioned responses...
...show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits an entire wall from the Paris studio of Surrealism's ideological father, André Breton, hung with 44 years' worth of his bizarre memorabilia and his own collection of Rousseau, Kandinsky...