# The 1766 public quarrel with Hume turns exile hospitality into polarising pamphlets Date: 1766 ## The fact In 1766 Rousseau’s English stay with Hume collapsed into mutually public letters. It is not a philosophy of inequality. ## Context A hospitality-to-libel spiral polarised philosophic publics in Paris and London. High confidence on the quarrel existing. Small welfare size. [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute. ## Evidence and sources Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — David Hume (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). ## Significance A 1766 open letter-war is a polarisation path, not a proof of conspiracy against him. A 1766 open letter-war is a polarisation path, not a proof of conspiracy against him. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. ## People - Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/ - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-hume-quarrel-1766