{"id":1221,"date":"2023-07-27T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1221"},"modified":"2023-07-27T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:44:26","slug":"rousseau-and-the-collectivist-concept-of-freedom-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/podcast\/rousseau-and-the-collectivist-concept-of-freedom-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousseau and the Collectivist Concept of Freedom pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. This two-lecture series on Rousseau, delivered in the late 1980s, shines a spotlight on the great intellectual outlier of the Enlightenment.\u00a0While Voltaire, the Physiocrats, Locke, Smith, and Hume promoted rationalism and individual freedom, Rousseau was a harsh, if sometimes veiled, critic of both. Walsh paints Rousseau as an early adopter of the Orwellian idea that \u201cFreedom Is Slavery\u201d \u2013 and the proto-totalitarian inspiration of not only the French Revolution, but the socialist and nationalist revolutions of the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries. The Salem Center\u2019s Bryan Caplan, who heard Walsh live in 1989, has plans to make all of Walsh\u2019s \u201clost\u201d lectures on the history of ideas once again available to the curious public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. 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