Values and Technology
In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity''s technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization, mocked Rousseau''s praise for an original creative state of nature in which man enjoyed an optimum level of freedom.
Given the unprecedented intrusi...
In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity''s technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization, mocked Rousseau''s praise for an original creative state of nature in which man enjoyed an optimum level of freedom.
Given the unprecedented intrusi...
