Just Quotes (2)

From Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Basic Political Writings, Hackett.

Finally, however correctly administered medicine may be among us, it is still certain that although a sick savage, abandoned to himself, has nothing to hope for except from nature, on the other hand, he has nothing to fear for except his illness. This frequently makes his situation preferable to ours.(43) 于是就想起梭罗说的，文明社会创造了“灰尘”。

Man feels the same impetus, but he knows he is free to go along or to resist; and it is above all in the awareness of this freedom that the spirituality of his soul is made manifest. (45) 一直以来就对Notes from Underground里面对于heightened consciousness的讨论很着迷。相关的还有今天读到的罗素，讲笛卡尔的consciousness其实就是驳斥materialism的最好依据。