Author: Frederika Macdonald
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Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: John Morley
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Category : Compromise
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Ecrasez l’infâme! Voltaire’s rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau’s dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.

Author: Frederika Macdonald
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: John Morley
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: John Morley
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501769251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an acknowledged acme of French prose writing. Thomas L. Pangle argues that this aesthetic appreciation necessitates an in-depth interpretation of the writing's complex and multileveled intended teaching about the normatively best way of life—and how essential this is for a work that was initially bewildering. Rousseau stands out among modern political philosophers in that he restored, to political philosophy, what Socrates and his students (from Plato and Xenophon through Aristotle and the Stoics and Cicero) had made central—and that the previous modern, Enlightenment philosophers had eclipsed: the study of the life and soul of the exemplary, independent sage, as possessor of "human wisdom." Rousseau made this again the supreme theme and source of norms for political philosophy and for humanity's moral as well as civic existence. In his analysis of The Reveries, Pangle uncovers Rousseau's most profound exploration and articulation of his own life, personality, soul, and thought as "the man of nature enlightened by reason." He describes, in Rousseau's final work, the fullest embodiment of the experiential wisdom from which flows and to which points Rousseau's political and moral philosophy, his theology, and his musical and literary art.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1786560895
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 3656

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738192629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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