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TEACHER’S GUIDE · ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHY & MORAL PROGRESS

Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts — A Teacher’s Guide

A guide to teaching Rousseau’s provocative 1750 discourse, examining whether advances in science, literature, and the arts improve human morality. Explores virtue, luxury, social appearances, and historical argument, with discussion questions, close-reading suggestions, and a classroom activity.

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