An Essay on the Principles of Rousseau’s Anthropology  

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Muchnik, Pablo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 26 no. 2 (Mar. 2000), page 51–77.
Topik: amour de soi ; amour propre ; bourgeois ; ego sentio ; human make-up ; human nature ; natural as ideal ; other-centered ; savage ; self-centered ; totalities of feeling ; totalities of needs
Fulltext: 51PSC262.pdf (300.44KB)

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Against the impression that Rousseau is an eclectic thinker, this paper is an attempt to reconstruct the systematic core of his anthropology. First, I discuss the methodological starting-point. Second, I develop the structural framework required to make the concept of nature operative as an ideal within social contexts. Finally, I interpret Rousseau’s genetic account in terms of this framework. Such a procedure allows me to solve two interpretative problems, the aporia of the origin of wickedness and the question of man’s natural isolation. A twofold notion of logic is introduced to integrate the demands of history and structure, which overlap with those of freedom and necessity in Rousseau’s thought. This organizes my argument in a mirror-like way. I call this undertaking an essay, for it is the endeavor to think what Rousseau must have thought in order to write what he wrote.

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