Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations
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Auteur
Warner, John M.
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishRésumé
Among Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations was the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. A person with divided loyalties (i.e., to both himself and his cohorts) was, in Rousseau’s thinking, a divided person. According to John Warner’s Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations, not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, he believed it was fundamentally unsolvable: social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. Warner traces his argument through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association. Warner concludes that none of these, whether examined individually or together, provides a satisfactory resolution to the problem of human dividedness located at the center of Rousseau’s thinking.
Keywords
Political Science; philosophy; politics; politics and social views; interpersonal relations; Amour-propre; Emile; or On Education; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Thomas Hobbes; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophyISBN
9780271074641Publisher
Penn State University PressPublication date and place
University Park, 2018Grantor
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Social and political philosophy