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“The promptings of the heart are more to be trusted than the logic of the mind.” – Rousseau. Critically evaluate.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's claim that the heart deserves more trust than the mind is not a stray aphorism but the compressed statement of his entire quarrel with the mainstream Enlightenment.

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  • Rousseau's Romantic Turn Against Reason
  • The Discourse on Inequality: Reason as the Engine of Corruption
  • The Confessions: Trusting the Heart in Practice
  • Industrialization, Materialism, and the "Human Face" Missing from Reason
  • A Counter-Enlightenment Thinker
  • Critically Evaluating the Claim
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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