This article try explaining that misfortunes might lead the young men to criticize the present society or the present generation. Jean-Fransois de La Harpe lost his parents in his adolescence : this loss made him extremely poor. And he was sent to the...
This article try explaining that misfortunes might lead the young men to criticize the present society or the present generation. Jean-Fransois de La Harpe lost his parents in his adolescence : this loss made him extremely poor. And he was sent to the prison by an unjust trial.
A few years later, La Harpe entered the voltarian camp. We can find, like La Harpe, many philosophers-J.J. Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Voltuire, d'Alembert-who were suffered from various misfortunes.