Premium Content The Purpose of Language
By Anonymous - February 27, 2003
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his predecessor, Thomas Hobbes, both encounter the issue of language while constructing a concept of the state of nature and the origin of human society, a favorite mental exercise of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers such as themselves. The two agree that language elevates - or, perhaps more appropriately in…
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