Jean-Jacques Rousseau Group: Montaigne's Essays (1580)

At this meeting we'll turn to a selection of Michel de Montaigne's essays. I'll be reading from an edition of John Florio's translations, published in 1603, which can be found here: https://annas-archive.org/md5/98b81733d065cff0e98d3a3dd33eaf04
If anyone wants to read a more recent translation, here is a good one: https://archive.org/details/MontaigneEssayscompleteScreech.num

If we have sufficient time, we'll read over:
That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die,
Is Folly to Refer Truth or Falsehood to Our Sufficiency,
Of Friendship,
Of the Cannibals,
Of the Inequality That Is Between Us,
and Of Age,
which is the order that appears in the Florio translation.

Rousseau wrote on a wide variety of subjects, but the group will first delve into his political theory. And, while the group will concentrate on Rousseau, we may also take a look at other writers of the French Enlightenment; i.e. Montesquieu, Diderot, and, although he was a bit earlier, Montaigne.