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The thing is, there are some great refutations out there, Rousseau and Locke and a bunch of people since then.

An interesting fact is that Jean Jaques Rousseau also came up with another method, arguably similar to this one.

In 'The Confessions', as in his other works, Rousseau takes an opposing view.

It's mainly a personal project we have as a small team with David Catuhe, Michel Rousseau and Pierre Lagarde.

Though something from Confucius or Rousseau would also have worked.

As far back as Rousseau, there has been a current of thought that rejected science and glorified the individual.

Rousseau would probably say that a business's interests are inherently selfish and not in line with the general will of the populous.

Rousseau) really have no flavor of "modern humans and their artificial life are evil, while the good old savages and their natural life were much better"?

Rousseau's vocabulary of "rights" has not been particularly helpful.

It also appears in works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and even Aristotle.

Try Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- short and high-impact), Russell, Rousseau, Searle, Putnam, or Dennett.

Rousseau did the same in the first book (I believe) of Social Contract.

Rousseau) really have no flavor of "modern humans and their artificial life are evil, while the good old savages and their natural life were much better"?

Rousseau's vocabulary of "rights" has not been particularly helpful.

As for french culture specifically, a bit of Voltaire and Rousseau will be a good start, because what you look as "prextexts and hypocrisies" are probably the kind of subtle reasoning that would let your country be in not such a miserable state.

Next thing you know we'll be "flagged" for reading Rousseau (whose works were a major influence on Robespierre, a renown "terrorist") or Karl Marx, a guy whose works were appropriated by a lot of bad guys who killed a lot of people in the 20th century.

As far back as Rousseau, there has been a current of thought that rejected science and glorified the individual.

Rousseau would probably say that a business's interests are inherently selfish and not in line with the general will of the populous.

It also appears in works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and even Aristotle.