Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Jean-Jacques Rousseau died today – 230 years ago

Author (of Confessions, Julie, or the New Heloise, and The Social Contract) and philosopher (of the theory of the natural man) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. He said, “You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one." [He should have reasoned like Murray N. Rothbard.]... Mr. Rousseau died on July 2, 1778 in Ermenonville, France.

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