{"id":771,"date":"2017-08-19T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T08:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=771"},"modified":"2017-08-19T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T08:48:36","slug":"derek-matravers-in-the-tls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Derek Matravers in the TLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of philosophy. He was a champion of reason, who was also its great critic; he wrote operas, yet wrote against art; he wrote about child-rearing, and yet consigned his own children to an orphanage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rousseau.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rousseau-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rousseau-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rousseau.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about him in a short piece\u00a0Derek Matravers has written to kick off a new series on philosophy for the online TLS. You can find it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/jean-jacques-rousseau-contradictions-freedom\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.the-tls.co.uk');\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of philosophy. He was a champion of reason, who was also its great critic; he wrote operas, yet wrote against art; he wrote about child-rearing, and yet consigned his own children to an orphanage. You can find out more about him in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}