For Rousseau, a society can be free only if freely consented to, and obligations can be binding only if self-imposed. Hence, society must be founded in a ...

Rousseau does claim that the 'nature' of the 'soul' can 'change' and that therefore the 'human ra age' is not the 'human race of another'; that one can 'change ...

12 нояб. 2020 г. · The concept of liberalism as a coherent political philosophy came about after Rousseau and wasn't an "-ism" that could be ascribed to someone at ...

The contract at the basis of every modern state, Rousseau is saying, is fraudulent. And the “consent” at the basis of every modern state is also fraudulent.

Rousseau is best known as a critic of liberalism, or at least of liberal political theory. The more moderate Rousseau who has emerged in this book presents at ...

29 окт. 2024 г. · Rousseau proclaimed a secular egalitarianism and a romantic cult of the common man. His famous declaration “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

11 сент. 2017 г. · Rousseau still has things to teach liberals and conservatives alike about debating values like freedom and equality that are inherently in tension.

The following chapter deals with Rousseau's differences from classical liberalism and explains how these depend on his conception of man. In the concluding ...

6 янв. 2017 г. · Rousseau was the first great philosophic critic of Enlightenment liberalism, which was itself founded on a rejection of classical political philosophy.

23,57 $ This article suggests that the anti-bourgeois, illiberal character of Rousseau's political philosophy has been exaggerated. In order to illustrate this ...