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Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712  – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced ...
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Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes) also commonly known as the Second Discourse is a work by the philo...
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For Rousseau, amour de soi contrasts with amour-propre, a self-love that presupposes a comparison between oneself and others and consequently generates all the vicious and competitive passions.“Amour de soi-mâme is a natural feeling which leads every animal to look to its own preservation, and which, guided in man...
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We are perhaps hearing too much of Rousseau these days, and he threatens to become a kind of fetich of criticism. To the French he is, more than any other one man, ... Sympathy is stifled in envy, and harmless amour de soi-meme is converted into that social disease amour-propre; in a word, property means society.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love; for we have not, like the French two terms (L'amour propre, L'amour de soi meme) to distinguish the pursuit of a natural and reasonable desire, from the ignorant calculations of weakness.
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Society's negative influence on otherwise virtuous men centers, in Rousseau's philosophy, on its transformation of amour de soi, ... In his main writings Rousseau identifies nature with the primitive state of savage man. Later he took nature to mean the spontaneity of the process by which man builds his egocentric,
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In speaking of "Rousseau's theory of human association," I do not mean to imply that the "citizen of Geneva" had a fully developed model of human interaction. ... Do the political ramifica­tions of Rousseau's trilogy of passions—amour de soi, amour-propre, and compassion—vary within the disparate media of transparent...
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What does this mean? ... But the coup de grace to the small organic community was the population explosion in Europe, which started in the second half of the 18th century and ... Many of the writers we are now dealing with, however, are deracinated, constantly on the move, filled with a sense that they do not belong: Rousseau,
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Who was Rousseau, and how can we characterize his "times"? ... What does he mean by this opening line in Social Contract: "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."? ... How can we understand these terms: general will/paritcular will / the will of all / amour propre / amour de soi ?
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So when we seek food for the sake of nutrition, or clothe ourselves to preserve our bodily heat, or seek shelter from a storm, or defend ourselves against the attack of a wild animal, we are, for Rousseau, directed by amour de soi.
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