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According to Rousseau in his Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, the advancement of the science and arts leads to corruption of taste. Luxury as Rousseau describes is key to "dissolution of morals" (53). In other words, loss of morals goes hand in hand with the gain of luxury because of the advancement of the science and art...

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