id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8g84mk63s2b Matthew David Mendham Gentleness, Severity, and the System of Rousseau: Responses to Modern Commerce and Enlightenment 2010 .txt text/plain 353 14 36 This dissertation comprehensively analyzes themes related to gentleness and severity in Rousseau, while also comparing him with other major political philosophers and social theories. However, he frames the 'softness' it generates as politically base in comparison with the stern virtues of the ancients, as resulting from moral indifference rather than genuine conviction, and as perfectly compatible with the ramification of cruel institutions. cache/8g84mk63s2b.txt txt/8g84mk63s2b.txt