The Free Animal : Rousseau on Free Will and Human Nature /

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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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacLean, Lee, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778 > Criticism and interpretation.
Human beings > Philosophy.
Free will and determinism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Homme > Philosophie.
Libre arbitre et determinisme.
Personal Autonomy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Interpreting Free Will and Perfectibility in the Discourse on Inequality
  • Chapter 2: Free Will and Human Development: the Genealogy of Vice
  • Chapter 3: Free Will in Emile: Interpreting The Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
  • Chapter 4: The Quality of Rousseau's Intention and the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

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