... postlapsarian toil in Immanuel Kant and the Romantic scene of a non-alienated oneness with nature that leaves possibilities unused in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Theodor Adorno. Finally, the introduction sketches, via Hans Blumenberg and Sylvia Wynter, the problem of theodicy in Schelling as grappling...

... Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Hobbes passions free will nature natural goodness republicanism There are things that are possible in one age, but no longer remain so in another. This truth is often neglected, and never without danger. Benjamin Constant, De l’esprit de conquête et de...

...This book provides the most extensive analysis to date of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s engagement with the political thought of Thomas Hobbes. This involves tracing Hobbes’s French reception in the first half of the eighteenth century to elucidate the context in which Rousseau responded to Hobbesian...

...This chapter discusses 18th-century criticism on natural rights from the political and philosophical perspectives. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were the major critics of natural law and none of them endorsed the foundations laid by either the objectivism of natural law nor...

... Mimesis Gioseffo Zarlino Claudio Monteverdi Johann Mattheson Jean-Jacques Rousseau René Descartes Program music Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle The idea of music as an art of expression seems so self-evident that it is easy to overlook the premises behind this assumption. Expression of any kind...

... of education to women and rejects the educational philosophies put forward by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Another instance of that feminine weakness of character, often produced by a confined education, is a romantic twist of the mind, which has been very properly termed sentimental. Women...

... absolutism Plato Schwartz Joel Storey Benjamin Weber Max Jean-Jacques Rousseau sovereignty public opinion authority republicanism Locke’s most probing critic and simultaneous supporter in the effort to distinguish and support private authority against public power was Rousseau. Despite...

...The Democratic Sublime. Jason Frank, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190658151.003.0003 This chapter examines the centrality of popular assemblies to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theory of popular sovereignty by taking seriously the role...

...This chapter discusses the Fourth Walk in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Reveries, which begins in the present tense but quickly moves to the narrative past tense. It explains what occasioned the intensely reasoned self examination that the Solitary Walker will proceed to describe...

...This chapter investigates the Sixth Walk in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Reveries, which has the Solitary Walker treat the third pillar of his moral thought. It highlights goodness as a decided contrast with virtue and as emphatically a source of another, different version of true...

... Roger O’Hagan Timothy Rosenblatt Helena sociability Cicero Pliny the Elder Seneca d’Houdetot Sophie Petrarch Francesco toleration Kant Immanuel natural religion Neuhouser Frederick perfectibility pride dogma s Jean-Jacques Rousseau theology religion On the evening of June 8, 1762...

... 3rd Earl of Anthony Ashley Cooper justice atheism Diderot Denis lawgiver Shklar Judith dogma s intolerance Jean-Jacques Rousseau theology religion Voltaire Lisbon earthquake providence On the morning of All Saints’ Day, November 1, 1755, a devastating earthquake struck Lisbon...

... goodness of man atheism Poul Serrho virtue Jean-Jacques Rousseau theology religion nature God truth utility In this study I have explored the relationship between Rousseau’s philosophy of the natural goodness of man and his corruption in society, on the one hand, and his theological and religious...

...Investigates the toy as it shows up in the educational theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Richard and Maria Edgeworth. Despite their pedagogic agenda, these writers acknowledge the child’s aggression, attempting to manage its relationship with its toys both through the formulation of the object...

...David Hume's view of virtue as agreeable and useful differs from the views of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Jean Jacques Rousseau who see virtue as sublime and noble. Hume does not differentiate between virtues, skills, and talents that, as such, all arouse approbation or pleasing...

... close readings of central texts in ancient and modern political philosophy. Its main chapters reconstruct the concepts of care employed by thinkers as different as Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and William Godwin. Through its critical engagement with Plato’s provocations about the need for caring...

... Blanchot Jean-Jacques Rousseau I am still interested in how the voice moves the body, moves in the body. —J. M. Coetzee This final chapter turns to J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), a novel that commands a place in any discussion of musical forms in transnational...

... universal grammar John Locke James Harris James Beattie Thomas Reid Jean-Jacques Rousseau Etienne Bonnot de Condillac How might the natural gestures employed by people beginning to communicate develop into a language of conventional signs? The two forms of sign are entirely different, one depending...

... Übermensch nature culture and Untimely Meditations Nietzsche Jean-Jacques Rousseau Friedrich Nietzsche ideal of authenticity ideal of sincerity Next to being two of the most trenchant critics of modern society, Rousseau and Nietzsche are probably best known for being two of the most profound theorists...