The Free Animal : : Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature / / Lee MacLean.
Free will is a key but contested concept in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: while the famed philosopher is known to have asserted that free will distinguishes human beings from animals, several interpreters have argued that he merely pretends to have this belief for the sake of healthy politics a...
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MacLean, Lee , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Free Animal : Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature / Lee MacLean. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2013 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interpreting Free Will and Perfectibility in the Discourse on Inequality -- 2. Free Will and Human Development: The Genealogy of Vice -- 3. Free Will in Emile: Interpreting the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar -- 4. The Quality of Rousseau's Intention and the Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Free will is a key but contested concept in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: while the famed philosopher is known to have asserted that free will distinguishes human beings from animals, several interpreters have argued that he merely pretends to have this belief for the sake of healthy politics and to avoid persecution by religious authorities. Through careful readings of key texts and letters, The Free Animal offers a new and original exploration of Rousseau's views on free will.Lee MacLean shows that Rousseau needs and uses the idea of human consciousness of free will to explain the development of morality, convention, and vice. MacLean bases her argument on a broad range of texts, from canonical works to Rousseau's untranslated letters and drafts. Featuring careful analyses and an extensive engagement with the secondary literature, The Free Animal offers a novel interpretation of the changing nature and complexity of Rousseau's intention. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Free will and determinism. Human beings Philosophy. DISCOUNT-B. PHILOSOPHY / Political. bisacsh print 9781442644953 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442663725 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442663725 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442663725.jpg |
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