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Emile

Rousseau's Emile argues that children should not be positively educated before reason develops; early education should be negative, preserving health and avoiding vice rather than teaching abstractions.

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Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

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"...there are three major thinkers, pioneers of this time, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and this man, George Simmel. And George Simmel wrote a wonderful..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...okay all right so he wrote a very influential book called emile emile is his treatise on education how should you best educate children..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...you die, you're not actually impacting the community, okay? And that's Emile Durkheim's argument. You're always gonna have people kill themselves in all religions...."

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