Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I will resume (and conclude) my series on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the paradox of politics next week. In the meantime, I want to share some thoughts on the rule of law. In my recent talk on Friday, 21 November, at … Continue reading →

Last week (see here), we saw how a young Adam Smith singled out and transcribed three lengthy philosophical fragments from Rousseau’s famed Second Discourse in his (Smith’s) 1756 letter to the Edinburgh Review, and we then took a closer look … Continue reading →

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog; and nobody knows when you’re feeling under the weather either! But I am, so I will share my thoughts on the rule or law (see my previous post) and resume my series … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on Smith and Rousseau in the next day or two because I will be speaking at a symposium on the rule of law at the University of St Thomas Law School today.

I have too much going on today, so I will resume my series on J.-J. Rousseau in my next post; in the meantime, enjoy …

In summary, if Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the Second Discourse (1755) to explain how men lost their natural liberty in the remote past, he wrote yet another book, Du Contrat social (1762), to explain how they might recover their freedom in … Continue reading →