Some Thoughts on the Hume-Rousseau “Philosopher’s Quarrel”

May 9th 2022 11:11am EDT

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, left, and David Hume. 3,901 words “No good deed goes unpunished,” as the old saw goes. It puts a cynical, waggish twist on the perspicacious observation that acts of genuine generosity and kindness too often come to grief. Benefactors beware! Shades of Thomas Hobbes: “Man to man is a wolf.” The Scottish philosopher […]

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