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the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Many conservative thinkers see Rousseau as having gone full circle from a promising start to creating what we now think of as the political left.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
concepts, distinctions, and principles—
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke set out to free political institutions from arbitrary rules and assumptions.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The eccentric, glorious French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau had, in the eighteenth century, laid the grounds of discontent with modern civilisation by denouncing it as a destroyer of the ‘authenticity’ of human beings.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
rationality;
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
rationality;
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
John Stuart Mill, qui en faisait « la science qui décrit les lois des phénomènes de société qui se produisent du fait des opérations conjointes de l’humanité pour la production de richesses6 ». Mill inaugurait ainsi une tendance que d’autres allaient accentuer : on ne nommerait désormais plus les buts de l’économie, mais on chercherait à en découvr
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