Author : Matthew Simpson
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Offers an interpretation of the theory of freedom in the Social Contract. The author 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.
Author : Nicholas Capaldi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1784712531
Liberty and Equality in Political Economy is an evolutionary account of the ongoing debate between two narratives: Locke and liberty versus Rousseau and equality. Within this book, Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd view these authors and their texts as parts of a conversation, therefore highlighting a new perspective on the texts themselves.
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge. Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific knowledge.
Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1107037859
A systematic account of Rousseau's significance in relation to Kant's, Fichte's and Hegel's views on freedom, dependence and necessity.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.
Author : Christie McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139486241
Debates about freedom, an ideal continually contested, were first set out in their modern version by the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His ideas and analyses were taken up during the philosophical enlightenment, often invoked during the French Revolution, and still resonate in contemporary discussions of freedom. This volume, first published in 2010, examines Rousseau's many approaches to the concept of freedom, in the context of his thought on literature, religion, music, theater, women, the body, and the arts. Its expert contributors cross disciplinary frontiers to develop thought-provoking new angles on Rousseau's thought. By taking freedom as the guiding principle of their analysis, the essays form a cohesive account of Rousseau's writings.
Author : Paul D. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108892418
When is war just? What does justice require? If we lack a commonly-accepted understanding of justice – and thus of just war – what answers can we find in the intellectual history of just war? Miller argues that just war thinking should be understood as unfolding in three traditions: the Augustinian, the Westphalian, and the Liberal, each resting on distinct understandings of natural law, justice, and sovereignty. The central ideas of the Augustinian tradition (sovereignty as responsibility for the common good) can and should be recovered and worked into the Liberal tradition, for which human rights serves the same function. In this reconstructed Augustinian Liberal vision, the violent disruption of ordered liberty is the injury in response to which force may be used and war may be justly waged. Justice requires the vindication and restoration of ordered liberty in, through, and after warfare.
Author : JEAN-JACQUES. ROUSSEAU
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2025
Category :
ISBN : 9781398840331
Author : Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107511607
If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.
