The letter soon found wide publicity; Hume is believed to have been present, and to have participated in its creation | ——— 1991 , "The Noble Savage", The Scientific Monthly, Chicago, Illinois, 36 3 : 250, : |
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 | 21 January 2019 at the by Charles Dudley Warner• The book is in the form of three dialogues between two characters; a Frenchman and Rousseau who argue about the merits and demerits of a third character—an author called Jean-Jacques |
2005 , "The Very Order of Things: Rousseau's Tutorial Republicanism", Polity, 37 2 : 235—61, :,• Initially, Hume lodged Rousseau in the house of Madam Adams in London, but Rousseau began receiving so many visitors that he soon wanted to move to a quieter location | A contemporary portrait of the Countess of Houdetot He also pursued an unconsummated romantic attachment with the 25-year-old , which partly inspired his , also based on memories of his idyllic youthful relationship with Mme de Warens |
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Since he wanted to remain in Switzerland, Rousseau decided to accept an offer to move to a tiny island, the , having a solitary house | This then resulted in the corruption of humankind, "producing combinations fatal to innosense and happiness" |
When Hume learnt that Rousseau was writing the , he assumed that the present dispute would feature in the book.
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