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Science ou vision? : une analyse du "Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes" / par Morten Nøjgaard.
Van Pelt Library PQ2040.D7 N645 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nøjgaard, Morten., author.
- Series:
- Scientia Danica. Humanistica 8 ; 1904-5492 Series H, v. 23.
- Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica 8, 1904-5492 ; vol. 23
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Criticism and interpretation.
- Philosophy, French--18th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- French literature--18th century.
- French literature.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [København] : Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Text in French; includes abstracts in French and English.
- Summary:
- "Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Second Discourse on the origin of equality (1755) is generally consider his most brilliant and most influential philosophical essay. Studied in universities over the world to this day, interpretations of the essay differ widely, as they have done ever since it was enthusiastically welcomed by his contemporaries and slated by Voltaire. The reason for the dissensions is that Rousseau, in the Second Discourse, lives fully up to his reputation as 'a man of paradoxes', permitting himself to defend a thesis as well as its opposite. The aim of the book is to show that behind the paradoxes a profound mind is striving to produce a new and coherent picture of the childhood of mankind. To clear the way for Rousseau's 'deep thought' one must first eliminate the misleading interpretations which have marred the philosophical reception of the Second Discourse. Even some of its most fundamental concepts are often misunderstood by critics, for instance the so-called goodness of natural man, the idea of going back to nature or the equally incorrect assumption of the historic reality of the state of nature... At the very end of the essay, Rousseau surprisingly launches an ambitious research project in social psychology. He proclaims the need to study not the social, but the mental mechanisms which, operating throughout the evolution, have changed the very nature of man, producing 'an assembly of artificial men'. The visionary philosopher aims at laying the ground for a new human nature, that is to create 'the new man'."-- Abstract.
- Contents:
- Introduction : ambiguïtés du Discours
- Le titre du Discours : egalité vs inégalité
- L'état de nature : hypothèse scientifique ou étape historique
- La loi naturelle : hypothèse innéiste ou valeur acquise
- Homme et animal : le critère de la liberté
- Une liberté positive?
- A quoi bon la pitié? Aversion de nuire ou penchant à secourir
- Le rôle évolutif de la perfectibilité
- La rhétorique de la provocation : la bonté originelle - Provocations : raison, universalité de l'homme, amour et famille
- Un modèle scientifique de l'évolution : les six étapes
- Une évolution linéaire ou cyclique?
- Un programme de recherche en psychologie sociale
- En guise de conclusion : la vision de l'unité.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9788773044568
- 8773044563
- OCLC:
- 1456854527
- Publisher Number:
- 9788773044568
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