Monday, August 6th, 2007
Rousseau and Mill on the Corruption of the Individual by Society
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, deliver jeremiads on the ways in which social life can corrupt the individual. Rousseau argues that a once healthy desire to be recognized socially becomes a runaway fetish, enslaving all who pursue it in vice-ridden competition. Mill warns of [...]
