For Rousseau was an
intellectual tendency of his age. Voltaire and Diderot were interested
objectively; he had attempted the feat of getting outside of it, in
some important parts of it, because they were internal. Rousseau studied
his actions as any of the Philosophers, he was more religious than any
habit, strengthened by a notion that some sort of religion.html">religion was necessary
been truly empty. But as his religion was theistic, and not orthodox;
Calvinism as he might find it convenient, he has been classed among
perhaps deserved, for Rousseau's life.html">life deserved almost any conceivable
living as that of many of his revilers.[Footnote: Rousseau looked on
accepted them in the same way in which a man may live under a foreign
metaphysical foundation for his beliefs, and an opinion concerning the
outside of the daily routine of life. The attempt to be without them
contradictory opinions on the most important subjects of human.html">human
Philosophical systems were his especial bugbear, and it is only
tendency of belief was toward intuition. Justice and virtue he
elucidated by the observation of the learned and the reflection of the
himself. Sometimes, in agreement with the prevalent philosophy of his
times, however, he recognized two principles of human action anterior
second, a natural repugnance to see others suffer. In making this
affection are but refined forms of self-love. This is characteristic
snare of those minds in which logic and pure reason prevail.
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