Rousseau e a pulsão humana por reconhecimento (amour propre)

Authors

  • Frederick Neuhouser Columbia University
  • Bruno Lemos Hinrichsen Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Bárbara Buril Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Keywords:

Rousseau, recognition, social pathologies

Abstract

In this article, the authour aims at set out the main countours of Rousseauian reflections about the human pulsion for recognition, developed in works such as Discourse on Inequality, Emile and Social Contract. Although he does not examine with details the complex theory of Rousseau, Neuhouser presents a more general image of its main dimensions and of how they can arrange a set to constitute a thought-provoking philosophy of recognition. The author, to sum up, develops four main questions to the theory of Rousseau: 1) What kind of passion is amour propre? 2) Why is it the principal source of the many evils that have appeared to many as intrinsic to the human condition? 3) What social and political measures can remedy these evils? 4) Why does the only solution to these evils—the development and exercise of human reason—depend on the proper cultivation of amour propre rather than on its suppression or extirpation?

Author Biographies

Frederick Neuhouser, Columbia University

Professor de Filosofia no Barnard College, Columbia University, Nova York.

Bruno Lemos Hinrichsen, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

tradutor do texto: Rousseau e a pulsão humana por reconhecimento (Amour propre).

Bárbara Buril, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

revisora do texto: Rousseau e a pulsão humana por reconhecimento (Amour propre).

Published

2016-12-18

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Section

Eixo Temático