Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inegalite parmi les hommes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dans Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'in galit parmi les hommes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau s'interroge sur les causes et les cons quences de l'in galit sociale. Publi en 1755, ce texte philosophique est une r ponse la question pos e par l'Acad mie de Dijon: Quelle est l'origine de l'in galit parmi les hommes, et est-elle autoris e par la loi naturelle ? Rousseau divise son discours en deux parties principales. Dans la premi re, il examine l' tat de nature, une condition hypoth tique o les tres humains vivaient sans soci t ni lois. Il d crit cet tat comme un temps de paix et d' galit , o les besoins taient simples et les d sirs limit s. Rousseau soutient que l'in galit n'existait pas dans cet tat primitif. La seconde partie du discours explore le passage vers la soci t civile, o l'in galit commence se manifester. Rousseau identifie la propri t priv e comme le principal moteur de ce changement. Selon lui, l'appropriation des terres et des ressources a conduit la division du travail, la formation de la soci t et, finalement, l'institutionnalisation de l'in galit . Il critique les structures sociales et politiques qui l gitiment et perp tuent ces disparit s. Rousseau conclut que l'in galit sociale est une construction humaine, non pas une condition naturelle, et qu'elle est souvent renforc e par les lois et les institutions.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU was born in Geneva on June 28, 1712, and raised by his father after his mother died giving him life. The reproachment Rousseau experienced at his father's hand produced feelings of guilt and inferiority that were to haunt him throughout his life. During his youth, Rousseau wandered throughout Europe from job to job. Having moved to Paris from the city of Lyon in 1742, Rousseau sought the intellectual life and soon became associated with Denis Diderot and the philosophes.
Rousseau's literary career began with his entry in an essay contest in 1749 on the subject of the relationship of science and the arts to morals. His winning essay, Discourses on Sciences and the Arts, soon became the foundation for his later work entitled the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1753). With its publication, he became a figure of some controversy in France. Ideological differences between his views and those of his Enlightenment contemporaries soon surfaced, and Rousseau once again found himself alienated from the intellectual establishment. His differences with the philosophes proved to be the impetus for Rousseau's future work on the content of human nature and man's rela-tionship to society and the state. Contrary to the individualism and intel-lectual enlightenment advocated by his contemporaries, Rousseau sought to sublimate individuality in the security of the collective per-sonality known as the general will. This new society would be typified by concern for the community and would be ruled by laws developed through a plan of controlled participation. Rousseau's social theory was developed in his work Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise (1761) and in Emile (1762). The institutional structure was constructed in The Social Con-tract (1761). In Emile, Rousseau presents his utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau inspired. Rousseau's later years were spent fighting off persecution, both real and imaginary. He died near Paris on July 2, 1778.
Rousseau's literary career began with his entry in an essay contest in 1749 on the subject of the relationship of science and the arts to morals. His winning essay, Discourses on Sciences and the Arts, soon became the foundation for his later work entitled the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1753). With its publication, he became a figure of some controversy in France. Ideological differences between his views and those of his Enlightenment contemporaries soon surfaced, and Rousseau once again found himself alienated from the intellectual establishment. His differences with the philosophes proved to be the impetus for Rousseau's future work on the content of human nature and man's rela-tionship to society and the state. Contrary to the individualism and intel-lectual enlightenment advocated by his contemporaries, Rousseau sought to sublimate individuality in the security of the collective per-sonality known as the general will. This new society would be typified by concern for the community and would be ruled by laws developed through a plan of controlled participation. Rousseau's social theory was developed in his work Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise (1761) and in Emile (1762). The institutional structure was constructed in The Social Con-tract (1761). In Emile, Rousseau presents his utopian vision of child-centered education, full of the sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau inspired. Rousseau's later years were spent fighting off persecution, both real and imaginary. He died near Paris on July 2, 1778.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782917260876 |
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| Title | Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inegalite parmi les hommes |
| Author | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prodinnova |
| Year published | 2019-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 126 |
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