Philosophy – Critique of Modernity
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Within the paper, for this answer, there cannot be extensive quotation of the authors you discuss. The authors can be paraphrased in a concise way (i.e. use your own words). If you paraphrase, you must still place the publication’s page numbers from where the paraphrase was taken and also list from which publication within the Reference page.
Pick two of three of the following philosophers – Rousseau, Mill, and Marx – whose writings express a critique of modernity). What are their critiques of modernity? What specifically do they find wrong with a world that is developing along the lines of the elements listed above? How do the philosophers disagree over their diagnoses of the ills of modernity, and thus with each other?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Discourses and On the Social Contract (any edition)
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (any edition)
Karl Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The Communist Manifesto (any edition).
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