The Living Thoughts of Rousseau
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Romain Rolland |
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Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Laurence D. Cooper |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271029889 |
The rise of modern science created a crisis for Western moral and political philosophy, which had theretofore relied either on Christian theology or Aristotelian natural teleology as guarantors of an objective standard for &"the good life.&" This book examines Rousseau's effort to show how and why, despite this challenge from science (which he himself intensified by equating our subhuman origins with our natural state), nature can remain a standard for human behavior. While recognizing an original goodness in human being in the state of nature, Rousseau knew this to be too low a standard and promoted the idea of &"the natural man living in the state of society,&" notably in Emile. Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience&—understood as the &"love of order&"&—functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined &"civilized naturalness&" to which all people can aspire.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Author | : Joshua Cohen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199581495 |
Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the 'society of the general will'. He also explores Rousseau's anti-Augustinian and anti-Hobbesian ideas that we are naturally good.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Political science |
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Author | : Matthew Simpson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2006-03-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1847143199 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau has a claim to be ranked above even Karl Marx as the political philosopher who has most influenced everyday life. His much-read philosophy of education alone would qualify him for a high place, but his political theory is even more important: decisions affecting millions of people were made based on the reading of certain lines of the Social Contract. Yet while politicians and scholars have studied this book for 250 years, almost no agreement exists on how to interpret its central concept: freedom. Rousseau's theory of freedom has led him to be called everything from the greatest prophet of individual liberty to the designer of the first totalitarian state. This book offers a new, unifying interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. Simpson gives a careful analysis of Rousseau's theory of the social pact, and then examines the kinds of freedom that it brings about, showing how Rousseau's individualist and collectivist aspects fit into a larger and logically coherent theory of human liberty. Simpson's book not only helps us to understand one of the pre-eminent political minds of the 18th century, but also brings us into closer conversation with those he influenced, who have done so much to shape our world. And in light of the interest in contemporary contractualist philosophers like Rawls, Scanlon, and Gauthier, readers will find it worthwhile to return to the thinker who offers one of the most radical, profound, and insightful theories of the social contract ever devised.
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1997-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521424462 |
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as The Social Contract and a selection of Rousseau's letters on important aspects of his thought. The Social Contract has become Rousseau's most famous single work, but on publication was condemned by both the civil and the ecclesiastical authorities in France and Geneva. Rousseau fled and it is during this period that he wrote some of his autobiographical works as well as political essays such as On the Government of Poland. This 1997 volume, like its predecessor, contains a comprehensive introduction, chronology and guide to further reading, and will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers.
Author | : Judith N. Shklar |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1985-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521316408 |
Cambridge paperback library. First published 1969. Includes bibliographical references. 5.