Rousseau On Education Freedom And Judgment

Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 370 pages
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Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271064451

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Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment by Denise Schaeffer Pdf

In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.

Author : Denise Schaeffer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 242 pages
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Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271064468

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Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment by Denise Schaeffer Pdf

In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern is the problem of judgment and how to foster it on both the individual and political level in order to create the conditions for genuine self-rule. Offering a detailed commentary on Rousseau’s major work on education, Emile, and a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between Emile and several of Rousseau’s other works, Schaeffer explores Rousseau’s understanding of what good judgment is, how it is learned, and why it is central to the achievement and preservation of human freedom. The model of Rousseauian citizenship that emerges from Schaeffer’s analysis is more dynamic and self-critical than is often recognized. This book demonstrates the importance of Rousseau’s contribution to our understanding of the faculty of judgment, and, more broadly, invites a critical reevaluation of Rousseau’s understanding of education, citizenship, and both individual and collective freedom.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783986774356

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Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Emile, or On Education" or "Émile, or Treatise on Education" is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness, as well as being one of the first Bildungsroman novels.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 538 pages
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Release : 2006-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425042097

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Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Sub-divided into five books, it describes the education and training of a young boy Emile during various stages of his life. Rousseau as his tutor teaches him the way to good living through education. the final book deals with the issues of female education. Even today it is one of the most widely read books on the subject of education. Enlightening!

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781877527883

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Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow for human goodness. He uses the fictional story of Emile and his tutor to outline his ideas. The book was banned and publicly burned on its publication, but became a European bestseller and provided a basis for new education systems.

Author : Kenneth Wain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134492893

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Between Truth and Freedom by Kenneth Wain Pdf

This book engages in a broad reading of Rousseau’s writings on educational and political thought in order to explore and address the competing demands of the enculturation and individuation of the young in Western societies. Although Rousseau’s Emile has been frequently utilised in educational debate, much of his other work has been largely neglected, as too has the relationship between his educational and political thinking, which this work seeks to redress. Drawing on the thinking of philosophers Foucault and Richard Rorty, the book considers the public and private conflicts of education and politics in modern societies, treating them as the tension between the demands of truth and freedom. This tension exists across a range of educational and political systems, such as teaching in and by the family, school, the government and, separately, for women. Wain suggests that the conflict between truth and freedom began with Rousseau and remains a central challenge in our contemporary world of political and educational thought. This book’s examination of the public and private roles in education and politics can enhance our understanding of modern educational systems and current political nihilism. Between Truth and Freedom provides an analysis of Rousseau’s position on the politics of education, arguing that his thoughts were much wider and more sophisticated than the ideas presented in Emile imply. This new consideration of the work of a classic figure will appeal to researchers and academics in the fields of the philosophy of education and political education.

Author : Laurence D. Cooper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 241 pages
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Release : 2021-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271029887

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Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life by Laurence D. Cooper Pdf

The rise of modern science created a crisis for Western moral and political philosophy, which had theretofore relied either on Christian theology or Aristotelian natural teleology as guarantors of an objective standard for &"the good life.&" This book examines Rousseau's effort to show how and why, despite this challenge from science (which he himself intensified by equating our subhuman origins with our natural state), nature can remain a standard for human behavior. While recognizing an original goodness in human being in the state of nature, Rousseau knew this to be too low a standard and promoted the idea of &"the natural man living in the state of society,&" notably in Emile. Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience&—understood as the &"love of order&"&—functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined &"civilized naturalness&" to which all people can aspire.

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015020115104

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Émile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Author : Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003642258

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Rousseau's Émile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:HN26QI

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Émile, Or Concerning Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

Author : Jason Neidleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317224716

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Rousseau's Ethics of Truth by Jason Neidleman Pdf

In 1758, Rousseau announced that he had adopted "vitam impendere vero" (dedicate life to truth) as a personal pledge. Despite the dramatic nature of this declaration, no scholar has yet approached Rousseau’s work through the lens of truth or truthseeking. What did it mean for Rousseau to lead a life dedicated to truth? This book presents Rousseau’s normative account of truthseeking, his account of what human beings must do if they hope to discover the truths essential to human happiness. Rousseau’s writings constitute a practical guide to these truths; they describe how he arrived at them and how others might as well. In reading Rousseau through the lens of truth, Neidleman traverses the entirety of Rousseau's corpus, and, in the process, reveals a series of symmetries among the disparate themes treated in those texts. The first section of the book lays out Rousseau’s general philosophy of truth and truthseeking. The second section follows Rousseau down four distinct pathways to truth: reverie, republicanism, religion, and reason. With a strong grounding in both the Anglophone and Francophone scholarship on Rousseau, this book will appeal to scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

Author : John M. Warner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271077239

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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations by John M. Warner Pdf

In this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable—that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association—as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school. The result is an insightful exploration of the way Rousseau inspires readers to imbue social relations with purpose and meaning, only to show the impossibility of reaching wholeness through such relationships. While Rousseau may raise our hopes only to dash them, Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations demonstrates that his ambitious failure offers unexpected insight into the human condition and into the limits of Rousseau’s critical act.

Author : Eve Grace,Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429665226

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The Rousseauian Mind by Eve Grace,Christopher Kelly Pdf

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is a major figure in Western Philosophy and is one of the most widely read and studied political philosophers of all time. His writings range from abstract works such as On the Social Contract to literary masterpieces such as The Reveries of the Solitary Walker as well as immensely popular novels and operas. The Rousseauian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers: The predecessors and contemporaries to Rousseau’s work The major texts of the 'system' Autobiographical texts including Confessions, Reveries of the Solitary Walker and Dialogues Rousseau’s political science The successors to Rousseau’s work Rousseau applied today. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Rousseau’s work is central to the study of political philosophy, the Enlightenment, French studies, the history of philosophy and political theory.

Author : Thomas Davidson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230322388

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Rousseau and Education According to Nature by Thomas Davidson Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI CONCLUSION.--ROUSSEAU'S INFLUENCE The history of the world is the judgment of the world. Schiller. Let him, the wiser man who springs Hereafter, up from childhood shape His action like the greater ape; But I was born for other things. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxx. The history of mankind is a progress in the consciousness of freedom. Hegel. Having followed Rousseau's educational scheme from its beginning to its last effects upon manhood and womanhood, we have now to consider its value, to estimate its moral bearings, and to see whether it could properly lead to the results claimed for it. That the influence of Rousseau's ideas upon educational theory and practice was, and is, great, no one will deny. In education, as in other things, his passionate rhetoric and his scorn for the conventional existent, as contrasted with the ideal simplicity of Nature, roused men from their slumbers, and made them reconsider all that they had so long blindly taken for granted and bowed before. And in so far his work was invaluable. His bitter, sneering condemnation of the corrupt, hypocritical, fashionable life of his time, with its distorting, debasing, and dehumanizing notions of education, and his eloquent plea for a return to a life truly and simply human, and to an education based upon the principles of human nature and calculated to prepare for such a life, were righteous and well timed. His purpose was thoroughly right, and he knew how to make himself heard in giving expression to it. But, when he came to inform the world in detail how this purpose was to be carried out, he undertook a task for which he was not fitted either by natural endowment or by education. His passionate, sensuous, dalliant, and immoral nature prevented him from...