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This is how Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th-century philosopher and writer, describes the forgotten corner of western Switzerland where I recently found myself basking in the glow of a mid-spring ...
Rousseau’s Reveries are a useful antidote to this discontent, and provide, at least on the surface, a way to capture the “sweet sentiment of existence” and the accompanying happiness therewith.
GENEVA, June 28 (UNHCR) - "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains." This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world famous. But today, as we commemorate the ...