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Jean-Jacques Rousseau:Lecture 2 PHIL 1003 2009-10 DOI = thought experiment A meditation, not a fact-finding mission; Conducted during long, solitary walks in the woods. “Let us begin by setting aside all the facts….” “…hypothetical and conditional reasonings”; “elucidate the Nature of things [rather] than show their genuine origin” (DOI, Exordium). DOI Frontispiece  “The Philosophers who have examined the foundations of society have all felt the necessity of going back as far as the state of Nature, But none of them has reached it” (132). None of them has stripped man naked. ‘All that is ch