Scientific instruments and Alienation from Ourselves (Clip)

From Emile: “The more ingenious are our tools, the cruder and more maladroit our organs become.  By dint of gathering machines around us, we no longer find any in ourselves.” (176)  I give an example from the book that Rousseau gives of how he might teach Emile to judge distances with his eyes, but Rousseau has a larger point of how education can teach us to live with our senses, using them and developing confidence in them, instead of defaulting to the use of devices.  

 

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