Title Rousseau and the problem of human relations / John M. Warner

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series BiblioLabs, LLC. Books Contents Rousseau's theory of human relations -- Social longing and moral perfection -- Pity and human weakness -- Romantic love in Emile -- Romantic love in Julie -- Friendship, virtue, and moral authority -- The ecology of justice -- The sociology of wholeness Summary Among Jean-Jacques Rousseau's chief preoccupations was the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. A person with divided loyalties (i.e., to both himself and his cohorts) was, in Rousseau's thinking, a divided person. According to John Warner's Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations, not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, he believed it was fundamentally unsolvable: social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. Warner traces his argument through the contours of Rousseau's thought on three distinct types of relationships--sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association. Warner concludes that none of these, whether examined individually or together, provides a satisfactory resolution to the problem of human dividedness located at the center of Rousseau's thinking. In fact, concludes Warner, Rousseau's failure to obtain anything hopeful from human associations is deliberate, self-conscious, and revelatory of a tragic conception of human relations. Thus Rousseau raises our hopes only to dash them Analysis philosophy politics politics and social views interpersonal relations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast Subject Interpersonal relations. Humanities. Philosophy. Social and political philosophy. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. PHILOSOPHY -- Political. Interpersonal relations Political and social views Form Electronic book ISBN 9780271074641 0271074647

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