This work quotes Juvenal's 15th satire to make a point about tender-heartedness, which is reinforced by the example of Alexander of Pherae, who couldn't attend tragedies without crying but didn't blink at murdering people.  
This work quotes Juvenal's 15th satire to make a point about tender-heartedness, which is reinforced by the example of Alexander of Pherae, who couldn't attend tragedies without crying but didn't blink at murdering people.  In the third "note" appended to it, the author considers such "quadruped men" as a child found in 1344 who had been raised by wolves and the "little Savage of Hanover."  The author of this work wrote a letter to Perdriau to justify its unusual dedication, and one of the first authors cited in it, Burlamaqui, was a professor of law in the city to which it was dedicated, Geneva.  The first part features a distinction between two types of concern, "amour propre" and "amour soi," which correspond to the two types of the titular problem.  Written for a competition sponsored by the Dijon Academy in 1754, FTP, name this second of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's three discourses, which discusses the life of the noble savage.
This work quotes Juvenal's 15th satire to make a point about tender-heartedness, which is reinforced by the example of Alexander of Pherae, who couldn't attend tragedies without crying but didn't blink at murdering people.  
Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (or: Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'in?alit?parmi les hommes; prompt on "Second Discourse")