The Totalitarian Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Tom, discovering your content was a real turning point in my life. Thanks for everything you do.

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[@RavenclawFtW3295]

The sad part is that Rousseau's view of man dominates our era.

[@ManoverSuperman]

Rousseau’s arguments are much more refined than Locke’s, especially regarding the Social Contract and the fact that rights must proceed from the social order, not nature.

[@RavenclawFtW3295]

@@ManoverSuperman That would implicitly make rights subjective rather than an objective thing. It turns them into privileges. If rights come from a social order, then what security can you guarantee against those rights changing just because the social order changes? That's not to say social order isn't influenced by something objective. But when it isn't then how can the rights that supposedly come from that be guaranteed to you against the predations of change? If rights don't come even from nature, let alone God or social order, then they don't exist at all. There's just privileges.

[@jimlahey5339]

My brother has been smashing me in arguments about social security and he always brings up the social contract. Thank you Tom

[@7_red24]

Rousseau's idea of the General Will is silly and incredible.

[@napoleon2564]

Rousseau? More like Rousucks!

[@ozzy5146]

Rousseau is indeed in Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. Maybe even first.

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

Rousseau cannot be refuted. This discussion was shameful.

[@tab207]

Casey is by far my favorite guest you have on. & I am a huge fan of Horton & Malice, but Casey is a brilliant man who is far far too little recognized & celebrated

[@danielfisher8539]

Listening to this in 2020/2021 is crazy poignant.

[@allenellsworth5799]

Wasn't there someone paid by a king to write a book on the Social Contract? Edit: Be kind I haven't finished the episode.

[@Redeemedbylove1987]

One of the most interesting episodes!

[@jthemagicrobot3960]

your audio changed at various points in this - check your mic distance and look at your reverb

[@youngcorduroy4607]

Political philosophy is my favorite topic! Great episode! Keep having Dr. Casey on

[@chel3SEY]

What a silly travesty of Rousseau's ideas.

[@ezekiel3791]

"It seems to a man he is looking at the ruins of Palmyra, the magnificent remnants of genius and time, at the foot of which a desert Arab made his miserable hut". Chateaubriand P.S. It is you, Tom, and your thought compared to Rousseau.

[@josedanielherrera7115]

At 25minutes, I understood that this author who studied Rousseau. Didn't understand Rousseau's concept of general will because it wouldn't be possible to do so unless the author comprehends that their 'self' is an illusion and had replaced it with the collective will (in order to get rid of individual bias). Hive mind mentality? At least that's what I understood from the talk. How to get rid of self or at least recognize that's it's an illusion? No definite idea. A profound moment of clarity? Nirvana? Something else is required. Anyways, Rousseau was a terrible person so it's hard to take him serious but the author definitely doesn't understand the concept of the collective will and neither do I!

[@richardzellers]

Yes, and you are such a brilliant person and probably the only person ever to understand the concept. LOL

[@josedanielherrera7115]

@@richardzellers My last sentence was pretty clear. Can you not read? Why even bother responding if you're going to be a jackass?

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Tom, can you please mirror your content to Bitchute? you are among the last people one has to come to youtube for

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Except you don't have to.

[@mickeywood3012]

The debate about a Social Contract? Why debate, when Rousseau hit the nail on the head. Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Republic is proof of Rousseau's genius. Jefferson's Democratic Republic is unique, there's no other government like it. Jefferson's Republic is self-correcting, what other government pivots, in order to correct past errors? George Ticknor Curtis in his book History of the United States Constitution recognized that genius when he wrote that JEFFERSON's Republic was unique, there was Never another government not even close to the Republic Jefferson created.