The most useful and important rule for raising a child – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
After discovering What the 3 kinds of education were, and their purpose, it is necessary to identify the principles that will make an education the best way to raise a …
Category: Philosophy
The secret self
The self remains a secret for many, if not all of us. Some of the greatest writers have tried to discover their self, to explore who they are. We will …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the secret
For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, transparency and truth are goals to be achieved. As he writes in Book IV of the Confessions: “I wish I could in some way make my soul …
What is the Third Estate? Summary of Chapters 1 and 2
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was born in 1748. In 1774, he became a priest, but without a vocation. He held several important positions, but became truly famous in 1788, when he published …
The secret: essential for living well?
Without secrecy, no relationship is possible. You can think of secrecy as a hidden, dark place. But in the opposite direction, if there were no secret, everything would be pure. …
The vanity of painting – Blaise Pascal
In his Pensées, 40–134, Pascal states: What vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, whose originals are not admired! The pictorial representation is thus for Pascal …
