For Rousseau, liberty is at the root of being human. Because all human beings are free and equal by reason of their nature, they should remain ...

Rousseau, according to Vossler, is basically a moralist. His own autonomous ethics is worked out in Emile and the Nouvelle Heloise. Emile, a book on the ...

Rousseau's reflections on liberty in the light of autonomy, democracy, political engagement, citizenship, patriotism, the rule of law, the bearing of arms, and ...

The second part of the article presents an analysis of the four different meanings of liberty that we find in Rousseau's theory: natural, social, moral and ...

Rousseau argues that liberty is the natural state of all humans, it is therefore a moral ends, rather than simply a means to an ends. Thus liberty itself is the ...

In his novels and discourses he claimed that civilization had weakened the natural liberty of mankind and that a truly free society would be the expression of ...

Abstract. It is the misfortune of extraordinary doctrines that they suffer a remarkably common fate in the hands of their interpreters, and at first glance ...

Popular engagement in self-rule permitted greater scope for freedom than in the natural state. Private property should be preserved, but inequality legislated ...

28 мар. 2024 г. · Rousseau premises his argument by claiming that freedom is impossible in the state of nature because stronger individuals are free to coerce ...

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