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concept-1881	none	Rousseau on Health: A Study of Our Relations	2015	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6611	271	59	In what follows, I begin by addressing what Rousseau says about the body in a general sense, highlighting the causal connections he draws between the strength of body and the development of mind and, secondly, the importance they each hold for the cultivation of virtue. I suggested in the introduction to this essay that Rousseau gives us reason to be suspicious of any diametric between the mind and the body and asserts that the cultivation of body and soul or of body and mind are for one another: they “grow together,” and each is “extended by the other” (118).5 Nonetheless, his insistence on the importance of exercise “in order to make [Emile] wise and reasonable” (118; emphasis mine) implies that the healthy body is a necessary condition for intelligence and virtue, and that one is inaugurated by the other.	cache/concept-1881.pdf	txt/concept-1881.txt