Letter To Beaumont Letters Written From The Mountain And Related Writings

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611682854

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Letter to Beaumont, Letters Written from the Mountain, and Related Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Published between 1762 and 1765, these writings are the last works Rousseau wrote for publication during his lifetime. Responding in each to the censorship and burning of Emile and Social Contract, Rousseau airs his views on censorship, religion, and the relation between theory and practice in politics. The Letter to Beaumont is a response to a Pastoral Letter by Christophe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris (also included in this volume), which attacks the religious teaching in Emile. Rousseau's response concerns the general theme of the relation between reason and revelation and contains his most explicit and boldest discussions of the Christian doctrines of creation, miracles, and original sin. In Letters Written from the Mountain, a response to the political crisis in Rousseau's homeland of Geneva caused by a dispute over the burning of his works, Rousseau extends his discussion of Christianity and shows how the political principles of the Social Contract can be applied to a concrete constitutional crisis. One of his most important statements on the relation between political philosophy and political practice, it is accompanied by a fragmentary "History of the Government of Geneva." Finally, "Vision of Peter of the Mountain, Called the Seer" is a humorous response to a resident of Motiers who had been inciting attacks on Rousseau during his exile there. Taking the form of a scriptural account of a vision, it is one of the rare examples of satire from Rousseau's pen and the only work he published anonymously after his decision in the early 1750s to put his name on all his published works. Within its satirical form, the "Vision" contains Rousseau's last public reflections on religious issues. Neither the Letter to Beaumont nor the Letters Written from the Mountain has been translated into English since defective translations that appeared shortly after their appearance in French. These are the first translations of both the "History" and the "Vision."

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1584651644

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The Collected Writings of Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Author : James Farr,David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107057012

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The General Will by James Farr,David Lay Williams Pdf

Includes essays by prominent political theorists and philosophers that trace the evolution of the general will from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107511606

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Rousseau's Social Contract by David Lay Williams Pdf

If the greatness of a philosophical work can be measured by the volume and vehemence of the public response, there is little question that Rousseau's Social Contract stands out as a masterpiece. Within a week of its publication in 1762 it was banished from France. Soon thereafter, Rousseau fled to Geneva, where he saw the book burned in public. At the same time, many of his contemporaries, such as Kant, considered Rousseau to be 'the Newton of the moral world', as he was the first philosopher to draw attention to the basic dignity of human nature. The Social Contract has never ceased to be read and debated in the 250 years since its publication. Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text. David Lay Williams offers readers a chapter-by-chapter reading of the Social Contract, squarely confronting these interpretive obstacles. The book also features a special extended appendix dedicated to outlining Rousseau's famous conception of the general will, which has been the object of controversy since the Social Contract's publication in 1762.

Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271045515

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Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment by David Lay Williams Pdf

"In this sterling, deeply researched study, Williams explores how thinkers ranging from Hobbes to d'Holbach highlight various sets of ideas that Rousseau combated in developing his philosophical teaching. The account of Rousseau's predecessors who might be called Platonists is especially interesting, as is the account of those who qualify as materialists. Moreover, Williams provides a good overview of Rousseau's teaching, demonstrates a commendable grasp of the relevant secondary literature, and argues ably for the superiority of his own interpretations ... Clearly written and superbly organized, this book contributes much to Rousseau studies. An indispensable book for Rousseau scholars, this volume also will appeal to general readers and students at all levels."--C.E. Butterworth, CHOICE.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770486867

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors’ introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts, as well as an introduction to Rousseau’s life and historical situation. The volume also includes annotated appendices that help students to explore the origins and influences of Rousseau’s work, including excerpts from Hobbes, Pascal, Descartes, Mandeville, Diderot, Voltaire, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant, Joseph de Maistre, Kant, Hegel, and Engels.

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226800448

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Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human by Paul Franco Pdf

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses of problems we still face. In Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human, Paul Franco examines the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the two most influential shapers and explorers of the moral and cultural imagination of late modernity. Both thinkers leveled radical critiques of modern life, but those critiques differed in important respects. Whereas Rousseau focused on the growing inequality of modern society and the hypocrisy, self-division, and loss of civic virtue it spawned, Nietzsche decried the democratic equality he identified with Rousseau and the loss of individual and cultural greatness it entailed. Franco argues, however, that Rousseau and Nietzsche are more than mere critics; they both put forward powerful alternative visions of how we ought to live. Franco focuses specifically on their views of the self and its realization, their understandings of women and the relation between the sexes, and their speculative conceptions of politics. While there are many similarities in their positive visions, Franco argues that it is the differences between them from which we have most to learn.

Author : L. Ward,Bruce King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137475053

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Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson by L. Ward,Bruce King Pdf

The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering how democracy has become the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime, while also considering how modern democracy attempts to solve what Leo Strauss called the "theologico-political problem."

Author : Eve Grace,Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018280

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The Challenge of Rousseau by Eve Grace,Christopher Kelly Pdf

The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau's genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885775

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Toleration in Conflict by Rainer Forst Pdf

This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

Author : Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107105225

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Love's Enlightenment by Ryan Patrick Hanley Pdf

This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

Author : Jeremy L. Caradonna
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463907

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The Enlightenment in Practice by Jeremy L. Caradonna Pdf

Public academic prize contests-the concours académique-played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for scrutiny by panels of judges. In The Enlightenment in Practice, Jeremy L. Caradonna draws on archives both in Paris and the provinces to show that thousands of individuals-ranging from elite men and women of letters artisans, and peasants-participated in these intellectual competitions, a far broader range of people than has been previously assumed. Caradonna contends that the Enlightenment in France can no longer be seen as a cultural movement restricted to a small coterie of philosophers or a limited number of printed texts. Moreover, Caradonna demonstrates that the French monarchy took academic competitions quite seriously, sponsoring numerous contests on such practical matters as deforestation, the quality of drinking water, and the nighttime illumination of cities. In some cases, the contests served as an early mechanism for technology transfer: the state used submissions to identify technical experts to whom it could turn for advice. Finally, the author shows how this unique intellectual exercise declined during the upheavals of the French Revolution, when voicing moderate public criticism became a rather dangerous act.

Author : Stella Achilleos,Antonis Balasopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350099722

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Reading Texts on Sovereignty by Stella Achilleos,Antonis Balasopoulos Pdf

Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. Defined in antiquity as an absolute or supreme type of power, sovereignty's history has been marked ever since by numerous moments of crisis and contestation through which its meaning has been redefined and reconfigured. Using extracts of key texts selected and analysed by leading contributors from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Cyprus, Finland, France, Austria, Israel, and Italy, this volume examines these moments and how different societies have grappled with sovereignty through the ages. The book explores a diverse range of geographical and cultural contexts within which the issue of sovereignty became critical, including ancient China and medieval Islam. In addition, the book includes chapters that respond to the vital interplay between the development of the theory of sovereignty and such momentous historical events and developments as the birth of the democratic polis in the classical world, the legal and political developments that attended the rise of the Roman and Islamic empires, the bitter struggles over sovereign rights between the 'temporal' and 'spiritual' authorities of medieval and early modern Europe, the English Civil War, the French and American Revolutions, and the October Revolution.

Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691255514

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The Greatest of All Plagues by David Lay Williams Pdf

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it. But why, exactly, should inequality worry us? The Greatest of All Plagues demonstrates that this underlying question has been a central preoccupation of some of the most eminent political thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition. David Lay Williams shares bold new perspectives on the writings and ideas of Plato, Jesus, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. He shows how they describe economic inequality as a source of political instability and a corrupter of character and soul, and how they view unchecked inequality as a threat to their most cherished values, such as justice, faith, civic harmony, peace, democracy, and freedom. Williams draws invaluable insights into the societal problems generated by what Plato called “the greatest of all plagues,” and examines the solutions employed through the centuries. An eye-opening work of intellectual history, The Greatest of All Plagues recovers a forgotten past for some of the most timeless books in the Western canon, revealing how economic inequality has been a paramount problem throughout the history of political thought.

Author : Dallas G. Denery II
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173757

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The Devil Wins by Dallas G. Denery II Pdf

A bold retelling of the history of lying in medieval and early modern Europe Is it ever acceptable to lie? This question plays a surprisingly important role in the story of Europe's transition from medieval to modern society. According to many historians, Europe became modern when Europeans began to lie—that is, when they began to argue that it is sometimes acceptable to lie. This popular account offers a clear trajectory of historical progression from a medieval world of faith, in which every lie is sinful, to a more worldly early modern society in which lying becomes a permissible strategy for self-defense and self-advancement. Unfortunately, this story is wrong. For medieval and early modern Christians, the problem of the lie was the problem of human existence itself. To ask "Is it ever acceptable to lie?" was to ask how we, as sinners, should live in a fallen world. As it turns out, the answer to that question depended on who did the asking. The Devil Wins uncovers the complicated history of lying from the early days of the Catholic Church to the Enlightenment, revealing the diversity of attitudes about lying by considering the question from the perspectives of five representative voices—the Devil, God, theologians, courtiers, and women. Examining works by Augustine, Bonaventure, Martin Luther, Madeleine de Scudéry, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and a host of others, Dallas G. Denery II shows how the lie, long thought to be the source of worldly corruption, eventually became the very basis of social cohesion and peace.