"Burke, art Thou here too? thou, whose pen,
Can blast the fancied rights of men:
Pray, by what logick are those rights
Allow’d to Blacks—deny’d to Whites?"
Sadly, the pages of his journal covering those weeks in London were torn out by the descendants before they sold his papers to Yale. Scattered evidence suggests it was a pretty wild time.
I read a brief biography of Rousseau, and I swear it was half about what he or Levasseur got up to. At first I thought that "sex lives of philosophers" was just the focus of the writer, but the more I read about Rousseau, the more I think he undersold it.
Also, if youre looking for sex lives of great philosophers, reread the opening of Plato's Protagoras. I enjoy Socrates' "he's hotter now that he has a beard, of course I'm trying to get him into bed"
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Boswell: No thanks, I’m good.
Can blast the fancied rights of men:
Pray, by what logick are those rights
Allow’d to Blacks—deny’d to Whites?"
Sheesh.