Thinking about Capitalism

Abundance or Equality - Voltaire vs. Rousseau (1x6)


Data di messa in onda: Mar 01, 2008

Enlightenment thinkers debated the moral status of material well-being. Voltaire argued that the abundance created by commerce was the basis of civilization. Rousseau countered that material progress had increased inequality and undermined virtue.

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