Author: Joshua Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199581495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Rousseau
Author: Joshua Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199581495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199581495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life
Author: Laurence D. Cooper
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271029889
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271029889
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584657507
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
An exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women's studies
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584657507
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
An exceptional anthology designed for courses on Rousseau, the history of philosophy, and women's studies
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Tracy B. Strong
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461665612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In this book, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461665612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In this book, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This work is a frank treatment of Rousseau's sexual and intellectual development. It offers a model for the reflective life: the solitary, uncompromising individual; the enemy of servitude and habit; and the selfish egoist who dedicates himself to a particular ideal.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This work is a frank treatment of Rousseau's sexual and intellectual development. It offers a model for the reflective life: the solitary, uncompromising individual; the enemy of servitude and habit; and the selfish egoist who dedicates himself to a particular ideal.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: Leopold Damrosch
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618446964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of the American and French revolutions.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618446964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of the American and French revolutions.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Author: James R. Norton
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204225
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Swiss philospher and musician who contributed to the Enlightenment.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204225
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Swiss philospher and musician who contributed to the Enlightenment.
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.
Emile
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736804725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important of all my writings". Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar," Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society— how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man." Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract to survive corrupt society He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children.[5] It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736804725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important of all my writings". Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar," Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society— how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man." Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract to survive corrupt society He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children.[5] It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness
The Legacy of Rousseau
Author: Clifford Orwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226638561
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Few thinkers have enjoyed so pervasive an influence as Rousseau, who originated dissatisfaction with modernity. By exploring polarities articulated by Rousseau—nature versus society, self versus other, community versus individual, and compassion versus competitiveness—these fourteen original essays show how his thought continues to shape our ways of talking, feeling, thinking, and complaining. The volume begins by taking up a central theme noted by the late Allan Bloom—Rousseau's critique of the bourgeois as the dominant modern human type and as a being fundamentally in contradiction, caught between the sentiments of nature and the demands of society. It then turns to Rousseau's crucial polarity of nature and society and to the later conceptions of history and culture it gave rise to. The third part surveys Rousseau's legacy in both domestic and international politics. Finally, the book examines Rousseau's contributions to the virtues that have become central to the current sensibility: community, sincerity, and compassion. Contributors include Allan Bloom, François Furet, Pierre Hassner, Christopher Kelly, Roger Masters, and Arthur Melzer.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226638561
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Few thinkers have enjoyed so pervasive an influence as Rousseau, who originated dissatisfaction with modernity. By exploring polarities articulated by Rousseau—nature versus society, self versus other, community versus individual, and compassion versus competitiveness—these fourteen original essays show how his thought continues to shape our ways of talking, feeling, thinking, and complaining. The volume begins by taking up a central theme noted by the late Allan Bloom—Rousseau's critique of the bourgeois as the dominant modern human type and as a being fundamentally in contradiction, caught between the sentiments of nature and the demands of society. It then turns to Rousseau's crucial polarity of nature and society and to the later conceptions of history and culture it gave rise to. The third part surveys Rousseau's legacy in both domestic and international politics. Finally, the book examines Rousseau's contributions to the virtues that have become central to the current sensibility: community, sincerity, and compassion. Contributors include Allan Bloom, François Furet, Pierre Hassner, Christopher Kelly, Roger Masters, and Arthur Melzer.