zz quote of the day Mar 9, 2008
- jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (1754) ... - jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (1754). (Business Report, South Africa)
A Very 'Broken' African Lunch Feb 16, 2008
So I found myself quoting from 18th Century great philosophers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to explain the African corruption curse. After a sip of the coffee she had bought, I moved that there is corruption everywhere in the world, citing a recent example in Japan, where an English teacher was murdered in her flat by a Japanese boy. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Grave concerns Feb 16, 2008
Marcel Proust Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ernest Hemingway Agatha Christie Arthur Conan Doyle. guardian. (Guardian Unlimited)
Maine town raises a stink over coffee operation Feb 15, 2008
Says one by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door and take in all the aroma.". The neighbor who complained the most about the smell no longer lives nearby. (Boston Globe)
Wit and fizz give way to portrait of a static marriage Jan 20, 2008
The opening section of "Matrimony" provides a nicely zany portrait of life at Graymont College, bucolic and ultraprogressive with a brochure featuring pictures of Jean Jacques Rousseau and a cow. "Matrimony," Joshua Henkin's second novel, promises a scintillating account of four friends, soon to become two couples, who attend it. (Boston Globe)
A secular movement Jan 5, 2008
If I may, in counterpoint, present Mr. Deffebach with a pantheon of great secularists and atheists who brought the concept of equal human rights to the world: John Locke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill. Cristiana St. JohnAuberry. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Enemies of thought Dec 21, 2007
"But philosophers, on occasion, are not very philosophical. Ludwig Wittgenstein allegedly threatened his fellow Viennese Karl Popper with a poker during an argument about the existence or otherwise of moral rules at the moral sciences club at Cambridge. Jean-Jacques Rousseau convinced himself he was the victim of an international conspiracy, led by David Hume. He wasn't, but Hume was delighted when the Frenchman got the hump and shoved off back to the other side of the Channel.In any case, both... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Atta-Mills: The Most Trusted Name In Politics Dec 7, 2007
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), a Swiss philosopher once remarked that "Those who desire to treat politics and morals separately will never understand anything of either. Essentially, Rousseau is stating that the practice of politics not only can but must be reconciled with the imperatives of honesty. But what is honesty in a politician? Is it possible for a politician to be honest at all? The answers to these questions are the focus of this vignette. In politics, honesty, effective governance... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Page from Napoleon's love story sold for $35400 Cdn Dec 3, 2007
Peter Hicks of the Fondation Napoleon said the 26-year-old general was a gifted stylist, whowaswell read and influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher from the period of Enlightenment. With files from the Associated Press. (CBC Saskatchewan)
Season's readings Nov 23, 2007
Rather than simply asserting the rightness of secularism, it examines how Western concepts of God's place in society evolved over time, spurred by the writings of men like Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not for those merely seeking ammunition against the other side, it is a thorough and accessible look at a story whose ending is far from certain. (Boston Globe)
Docking Station: Josef Strau Voices and Substitutes Nov 22, 2007
Strau has sometimes linked these narrative installations to the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This twelve-volume biographical work recounts the eighteenth-century philosophers entire life since childhood complete with all the painful experiences, emotions and thoughts that are part of growing up. (AbsoluteArts.com)
READERS WRITE Nov 14, 2007
I have never understood why intellectuals regularly elect to follow the banners of certifiably insane men such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Stalin and Norman Mailer. FRANK CONNER, Newnan. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
* Government has broken its social contract Nov 11, 2007
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century French philosopher considered by many to be the "father of democracy," advocated natural rights and the theory of the "social contract," which directly challenged the contract relationship between the ruler and the ruled. Any government that only protects the wealth and rights of a few people but disregards the majority's rights, freedom and equality breaks the social contract with the public. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Theo Meier a Swiss artist under the tropics Oct 21, 2007
Somewhere else Theo Meier explained: "Very early in my life I was deeply impressed by the writings of French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and of course my other great major influence was the painting and writing of Paul Gauguin. "Gradually the fascinating world of the south Seas began to take an irresistible hold on me and after viewing Pechstein's painting of the tropical island of Palau, I knew that I had to see this paradise for myself. " Tahiti became his promised land. But his family... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
This season, dangerous shoes make an impact Oct 16, 2007
Standing outside an art gallery off the Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau earlier this month, the director Sofia Coppola was overheard whispering with friends about an exhibition of David Lynch photographs that showed women on their knees, or reclining, or revealing themselves to the camera, wearing nothing but Christian Louboutin shoes. She uttered the word "bondage" with such potency that it hung in the night's humid air, as if she had said something illicit. (International Herald Tribune)
The brassiere celebrates 100 Oct 9, 2007
" Aubade, which had sales of $45 million last year, was founded in 1875 and, in 1972, boasts of creating not only the first strapless bra but the backless one as well. In addition to the industry's large players, the sector also has some specialty makers, like the Paris-based designer Fifi Chachnil, who is celebrating her 10th anniversary. The universe of Chachnil, who has boutiques on the Rue Saint-Honor? and Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in central Paris, is one made up of glamour and frippery,... (International Herald Tribune)
Mind-sets of intolerance lead to strife and conflict Sep 26, 2007
Martinez speaks as if people such as Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jesus never lived. From beginning to end, the letter is riddled with fallacies, the most popular of which are equating homosexuality with bestiality and the authority argument whose sole force rests in a flawed appeal to God and the Bible. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
French Revolution Sep 20, 2007
His proposed revision of French socialist tradition going back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau is nothing short of revolutionary. His ability to deliver will make or break his presidency. (Wall Street Journal)
Failing to Live Up to Left-Wing Ideals Sep 15, 2007
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theory of the general will was a precursor to modern socialism, believed that private ownership of property was selfish and destructive to the collective state ... Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theory of the general will was a precursor to modern socialism, believed that private ownership of property was selfish and destructive to the collective state. (Townhall.com)
Why Casanova had to be a woman Sep 13, 2007
An adventurer, jailbreaker and duellist, cutting a swathe through Europe's finest salons and bedrooms and hob-nobbing with Voltaire, Madame de Pompadour, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Catherine the Great. An 18th-century figure who remains a source of fascination today for artists from Fellini to the Pet Shop Boys. (Guardian Unlimited)
J.H. Mensah and Owning the African Renaissance Aug 5, 2007
But European elites, through the Enlightenment thinkers and writers of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Galileo Galilei, Michel de Montaigne, Ren Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke and David Hume, summoned the intellectual will to overturned such inhibiting values by campaigning that human reason could be used to fight ignorance, deadly superstitions, tyranny, and to build a better world. More critically, the European, Asian and Latino renaissances emanated from the... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Kevin Rathbun Steak Jul 25, 2007
PHILOSOPHER Jean-Jacques Rousseau noted in the 18th century that "greater eaters of meat are in general more cruel and ferocious than other men.". Color me cruel and ferocious. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
11 THINGS: The French Connection Jul 13, 2007
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. La rponse: Shh. (San Francisco Chronicle)
James H. Walsh Amnesty's Frontal Assault on Republic Jun 26, 2007
Twenty-five years before Ben Franklin's cautionary reply, Jean-Jacques Rousseau authored Du Contrat social (1762), a classic work on the social contract between citizens and government. In it, he warned that those wishing to enjoy the rights of citizenship without fulfilling the accompanying duties would be the undoing of the body politic. (Newsmax)
Northern Ireland's Historic Canal Jun 23, 2007
The thriving printing industry that evolved served many European writers, including Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were printed in Newry. The canal provided employment and generated wealth for the towns and villages along its way during its 200 years of operation, but declined with the coming of the railways in the 1850 s when Belfast became a major port. (Suite101.com)
Adamovsky: Radical Ethics of Equality Jun 22, 2007
In this way, we end up in the paradox indicated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau more than two hundred years ago, in one of those ironic phrases laden with truth that he liked to shoot against his fellow philosophers. He questioned those who would say they loved Humankind, but only to avoid the obligation of loving any human being in particular. (Zmag.org)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
An exception is a short film by Joshua Mosely in which claymation figures of the philosophers Blaise Pascal and Jean-Jacques Rousseau hide in a forest from a large, threatening claymation dog. It is funny, conceptually intriguing, and technically amazing. (Boston Globe)
Six data governance steps every company must take today May 23, 2007
So, according to influential philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, we agree to give up certain freedoms. In return we get the security we need to pursue the finer things in life in other words, civilization. (Banktech)
Party Poopers Apr 21, 2007
But, in a tradition that goes back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French still tend to see political parties as vaguely illegitimate--as groups that place their own particular interest above the national interest. As a result, party affiliation is weak, and party organization notoriously fragile. (Ocnus.net)
Many find H&M's 'cheap chic' a good fit Apr 14, 2007
UC Irvine student Cemone Khan, 19, studied chemistry while she waited as pal Jessica Hoang read "Reveries of a Solitary Walker" by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The pair arrived Thursday at 3:30 a.m. for the noon opening at South Coast Plaza but were shooed away by a security guard, said Hoang, 19, of Orange, so they headed back to her Honda. (Chicago Tribune)
'Lost' philosophy: Something to think about Mar 28, 2007
Philosopher: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), French philosopher, born in Switzerland. Rousseau grew paranoid later in life and had a famed falling-out with philosopher colleague David Hume. (USA Today -- Life)
Mangkunegaran celebrates 250th anniversary Mar 23, 2007
Many historians consider R.M. Said a genius, and position his works on the same level as those of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau of France, who were developing a similar style of writing at the time. Unfortunately, Mangkunegaran is now no longer in possession of the original copy of Babad Tutur. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Angri-culturalRevolution Feb 14, 2007
This is true as far as it goes, but it begs the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his influence on Western civilization s attitude toward emotion. It was a lasting influence indeed we see it on television all the time. (The American Conservative)
All the news? (Thomas Sowell) Feb 11, 2007
As far back as the 18th century, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said man is born free but is everywhere in chains. In other words, the social restrictions essential to a civilized society were seen as unnecessary hindrances to each individual's freedom. (Washington Times, DC)
Online Marxist archive blames China for electronic attacks Feb 5, 2007
He is considered a "reference writer," along with other authors like Adam Smith, Stalin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Basgen said Mao was excluded because he failed a key question: "Did he serve to liberate working people?". (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Shaken and stirred by Bond Jan 22, 2007
The Lilly Library, along with Flemings manuscripts, shelters his collection of around 1,000 first editions from the 18th to 20th century of works that helped shaped modern thought, ground-breaking books by the likes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. AFP. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Stéphane Dion Jan 20, 2007
Then he cited Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The more important the decision, the closer the prevailing opinion should be to unanimity. And, finally, Montesquieu: If I knew something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman because I am necessarily a man and only accidentally French. (Globe and Mail)
Meat eaters, chew on this Jan 8, 2007
" The most enduring basis for vegetarianism -- animal welfare -- did not begin to take hold until philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jeremy Bentham, both meat eaters, separately challenged the prevailing rationale for eating animals. "[T]he question is not, Can they reason. nor, Can they talk. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Diamond rings on her toes Dec 23, 2006
Moore makes it quite clear that, since the philosophical wellspring of the revolution was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the odds were heavily against gender equality, whatever other types of equality were proposed. Rousseau empowered women through the mother-child relationship, but was firmly against them having a public role. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Ages-old hostilities plague Iraq Nov 22, 2006
It is a tenet of politically-correct thinking, reaching back to the days of the 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that all people, put in the same circumstance, will react similarly. In a flash of idealism, the Bush war planners believed Iraqis harbored the same passion for freedom as Western Europeans and Americans. (Montana Standard, MT)
DIGITAL UTOPIA Nov 6, 2006
" Indeed, millions of people each month visit social networking destinations like MySpace, online encyclopedias like Wikipedia and video-sharing sites like YouTube. Political groups like MoveOn.org have galvanized grassroots organizing. News aggregators like Digg.com have given editing power to readers. Combined, these Web sites have changed the landscape of countless industries and some have become worth billions. They have also tapped a nerve, resonating with people who feel powerless to... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Letter: Quote in veteran article came across as ignorant Oct 30, 2006
Political science cannot exist without philosophy, and our government is founded on the principles of philosophers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As one of my old teachers was very quick to point out, I presented a false dichotomy. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
Happy hunting Oct 20, 2006
Oswald was one of many revolutionary vegetarians, from the 18th century to the 21st, who imbibed the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In 1755, Rousseau had argued that because animals shared with humans the capacity for sensation, they at least had the right to be protected from "unnecessary" maltreatment. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tolstoy says the land belongs to all Oct 20, 2006
More than a hundred years ago the great French thinker, Jean Jacques Rousseau, had written: "The one who first fenced in a plot of land, and took upon himself to say, 'This land is mine,' and found people so simple-minded as to believe him, that man was the first founder of the social organisation which now exists. "From how many crimes, wars, murders, calamities, cruelties would mankind have been delivered had some man then uprooted the fences and filled up the ditches. "The injustice of the... (Guardian Unlimited)
Hostel environments Oct 9, 2006
Info: 20 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 011-33-1-53-00-9090. . (Buffalo News -- Arts)
A Matter of Opinion Sep 9, 2006
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, PHILOSOPHER AND NOVELIST. NOTICE: You must be and to post to our message boards. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
Meaty arguments Aug 21, 2006
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, concurring with the anatomical case, argued that the innate propensity to sympathy was a philosophical basis of animal rights, thus spawning a generation of Rousseauists who advocated vegetarianism. The economist Adam Smith took on board the doctors' discovery that meat was a superfluous luxury and this provided an important cog in the taxation system of his seminal treatise on the free market. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Tate buys Richardson portrait Aug 8, 2006
It also influenced some of the biggest names in literature, such as Jane Austen and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. SEE ALSO 14 Nov 05 | Entertainment 26 Sep 05 | Entertainment 23 Mar 04 | Hampshire/Dorset. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Dr. Joseph Patrick Lee Aug 4, 2006
As such, he was a member of more than 15 professional organizations, including the American Association of Teachers of France, American Association of University Administrators, American Comparative Literature Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Modern Language Association, North American Association for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Dr. Lee was also appointed to... (Leitchfield Grayson County, KY)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius Aug 4, 2006
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50 foreigners shaping China's modern development Aug 3, 2006
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778): Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist and thinker. George Macartney (1737 - 1806): British diplomat. (People's Daily Online, China)
Swing That Vine, White Boy!: Jun 24, 2006
As an American, Burroughs was geographically and philosophically at a distance from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and Jules Verne, but he inhaled both their love of the primitive and their suspicion of science. Growing with unabated power, that wariness of the mechanical continued to expand and take on an ever more intoxicating force with the dread following the unprecedented carnage of World War I and the smokestack lightning of industrialization. (Slate)
- Karma Nabulsi Jun 14, 2006
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau asked: "There is peace in the dungeons, but is that enough to make them desirable?". Karma Nabulsi is a politics fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and a former PLO representative. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cherry blossoms in Kyoto: 'Hanami' philosophy Jun 11, 2006
One can almost hear the voices of young philosophers discussing Shinto-Confucianism and Western philosophy, which was making inroads to Japan some 150 years ago: Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; then Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Tolstoy. Kyoto was the city where Nishida Kitaro -- perhaps the most important Japanese thinker since the Meiji Restoration -- founded his school of philosophy. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Victory by Angelides a validation for manager Calfo Jun 10, 2006
Boucher said she picked the social justice theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the foundation of the class. Calfo, at 15, was hooked. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Enlightened enemies Apr 29, 2006
When the philosopher David Hume offered refuge to the persecuted writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau it was apparently a meeting of minds ... That human frailty had faced its severest test 10 years earlier when Hume offered to succour the radical author Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Francis Fukuyama's about-face Apr 12, 2006
To show that Marx misunderstood Hegel and thus led Lenin and Josef Stalin astray, Fukuyama examines in fascinating detail the works of not only Hegel and Marx but of Aristotle, Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Abraham Lincoln. He also surveys the developments in Western thought that brought about the scientific method, which Hegel and Fukuyama say propels history to its ultimate end. (Asia Times Online)
Giving shelter to a 'viper' from France Mar 13, 2006
The exile in question is not Salman Rushdie in the 1990s, but Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher, novelist, composer and political provocateur in the 1760s. Learning of Rousseau's plight, David Hume, temporarily serving in a French diplomatic post, offers refuge. (San Francisco Chronicle)
So what on earth is respect? Jan 12, 2006
Here Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his "social contract" comes in. The 18th century French philosopher argued that people should give up their natural rights to do whatever they jolly well please so that society can function. (BBC News -- UK)
