A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Rousseau

Why did rousseau attack his essay "Discourse on the arts and sciences"?

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Are you referring to Rousseau's response to an advertisement by the Academy of Dijon, which posed the question: “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts contributed to the purification of morals?” ?

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