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    Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations

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    Author(s)
    Warner, John M.
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    103482
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30072
    Keywords
    Political Science; philosophy; politics; politics and social views; interpersonal relations; Amour-propre; Emile; or On Education; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Thomas Hobbes
    DOI
    10.26530/OAPEN_605032
    ISBN
    9780271074641
    OCN
    1038389933
    Publisher
    Penn State University Press
    Publisher website
    http://www.psupress.org/
    Publication date and place
    University Park, 2018
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 103482 - KU Round 2
    Classification
    Social and political philosophy
    Pages
    270
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Amour-propre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amour-propre; Emile, or On Education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education; Interpersonal relationship - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship; Jean-Jacques Rousseau - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau; Thomas Hobbes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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