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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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