The General Will before Rousseau : : The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic / / Patrick Riley.
Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly" that some men be d...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One. The General Will Established: From Paul and Augustine to Pascal and Malebranche
- Two. The General Will under Attack: The Criticisms of Bossuet, Fenelon, and Bayle
- Three. The Departure from General Will: Malebranche on Moral Relations, Order, and Occasionalism
- Four. The General Will Socialized: The Contribution of Montesquieu
- Five. The General Will Completed: Rousseau and the Volonté Générale of the Citizen
- Six. A Brief Conclusion
- Index