Rousseaus Critique Of Inequality

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064740
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Critique of Inequality written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates Rousseau's arguments concerning why inequality exists in society and why it poses dangers to human well-being.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150403547X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse on Inequality written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history’s greatest minds The first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society—and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of inequality. One of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, Rousseau based his work in compassion for his fellow man. The great crime of despotism, he believed, was the raising of the cruel above the weak. In this landmark text, he spells out the antidote for man’s ills: a compassionate revolution to pull up the fences and restore the balance of mankind. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Author : Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316009345
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Critique of Inequality written by Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German Frederick Neuhouser and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates Rousseau's arguments concerning why inequality exists in society and why it poses dangers to human well-being.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on the Origin of Inequality written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199542678
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his brilliant investigation of amour propre: the passion that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings. Frederick Neuhouser traces the development of this key idea in modern thought.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract.

Author : Michael Locke McLendon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295730
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Inequality written by Michael Locke McLendon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau's work and reveals it to be a form of selfish vanity that mimics aspects of Homeric honor culture and, in the modern world, shapes the outlook of the wealthy and powerful as well as the underlying assumptions of meritocratic ideals. According to McLendon, Rousseau's elucidation of amour-propre describes a desire for glory and preeminence that can be dangerously antisocial, as those who believe themselves superior derive pleasure from dominating and even harming those they consider beneath them. Drawing on Rousseau's insights, McLendon asserts that certain forms of inequality, especially those associated with classical aristocracy and modern-day meritocracy, can corrupt the mindsets and personalities of people in socially disruptive ways. The Psychology of Inequality shows how amour-propre can be transformed into the demand for praise, whether or not one displays praiseworthy qualities, and demonstrates the ways in which this pathology continues to play a leading role in the psychology and politics of modern liberal democracies.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977626929
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse on Inequality written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men commonly known as the "Second Discourse", is a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It was written in 1754 in response to a prize competition of the Academy of Dijon answering the prompt: What is the origin of inequality among people, and is it authorized by natural law?* Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction (like a work by Thomas Hobbes, unlike those by John Locke), and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality.* Rousseau discusses two types of inequality: natural, or physical inequality, and ethical, or moral inequality. Natural inequality involves differences between one human's body and that of another-it is a product of nature. * Rousseau opines that human freedom does not mean the capacity to choose, which would require reason, but instead the ability to refrain from instinct. Only with such a capacity can humans acquire new habits and practices.* Rousseau claims natural man does not possess reason or language (in which reason's generation is rooted) or society-and these three things are mutually-conditioning, such that none can come into being without the others.* With primitive social existence (preceding civil society), humans gain a "love of well-being" ("amour propre") and most of the rest of Rousseau's account is based on this. Rousseau's critique of civil society is primarily based on psychological features of civil man, with amour propre("love of well-being" ) pushing individuals to compare themselves with others, to gain a sense of self corresponding to this, and to dissolve natural man's natural pity.* According to Rousseau, "The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society". But Rousseau then clarifies that this moment was presaged by a series of environmental and rational conditions that made it possible. For Rousseau, even the concept of private property required a series of other concepts in order to be formed.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Origin of Inequality written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.

Author : Joseph de Maistre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356604X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Rousseau written by Joseph de Maistre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People are Maistre's most comprehensive treatment of Rousseau's ideas and his most sustained critique of the ideological foundations of the revolution. On the State of Nature, a detailed critique of Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, focuses on Rousseau's belief in the natural goodness of man; On the Sovereignty of the People, a critique of Social Contract, explores Rousseau's theory of popular sovereignty. In Maistre's eyes Rousseau encouraged the socially destructive individualism that lay at the heart of the French Revolution. However, the essays reveal some surprising ambiguities in the relationship between two seminal thinkers who are usually thought of as polar opposites, suggesting that Maistre's vision was more akin to Rousseau's than he would have admitted. Against Rousseau offers valuable insights into the evolution of Maistre's counter-revolutionary ideas during the crucial years of 1792-97 and illustrates his remarkable insights into society and politics. It is vital to any consideration of his thought or the counter-revolutionary movement in eighteenth-century France.