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A Discussion of Rousseau and Mill on the Contributions of the Arts and Sciences to Society

Tore DeBella
1 November 2005















“It has become appallingly clear,” Albert Einstein famously argued, “that our technology has surpassed our humanity.” Somewhat ironically, Einstein himself was among the greatest contributors to the preeminence of science and technology in contemporary society, some two hundred years after Jean-Jacques Rousseau had presented a similar argument against the arts and sciences at the Academy of Dijon.
I. Introduction
In 1750, while visiting an imprisoned Diderot in Vincennes, Rousseau read an advertisement for an essay contest sponsored by the Academy of Dijon. The theme of the contest was “Whether the Restorations of the Sciences and Arts has contributed to the purification of morals.” Writing in the negative, Rousseau won the contest and a year later, his first discourse “On the Sciences and Arts” was...

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