L'homme et la nature chez Rousseau
For Rousseau, the state of nature is an ensemble of structured opposites; interpreting this ensemble seems to have become excessively schematic on several points. This article aims to add nuances to their relationships, particularly, but not only, the one that unconditionally ties the making of perf...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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2002
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Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques
Year: 2002, Volume: 86, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-84 |
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| Summary: | For Rousseau, the state of nature is an ensemble of structured opposites; interpreting this ensemble seems to have become excessively schematic on several points. This article aims to add nuances to their relationships, particularly, but not only, the one that unconditionally ties the making of perfectibility to the emerging of society, and also the one that, as a result, makes all cultural transmission dependent on that event. For it would seem that perfectibility, which is at work in the state of nature, veers quickly to an inter-human imitation at a distance, which allows culture to germinate before any sociality. This hypothesis would, amongst other things, shed light on certain sections of the Second Discours that would otherwise remain quite strange. RésuméL’état de nature chez Rousseau est un tableau structuré par des oppositions dont l’interprétation semble devenue sur bien des points excessivement schématique. L’objet de cet article est de nuancer ces rapports, en particulier non seulement celui qui lie, de façon inconditionnée, l’actualisation de la perfectibilité à l’apparition de la société, mais aussi celui qui, du coup, fait dépendre toute transmission culturelle de cette émergence. Il semble en effet que la perfectibilité, bien à l’œuvre dès l’état de nature, prend très vite le chemin d’une imitation inter-humaine à distance qui permet une ébauche de culture avant toute socialité. Cette hypothèse permet, entre autres, d’éclairer certains passages du Second Discours qui, autrement, resteraient bien mystérieux. |
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| ISSN: | 2118-4445 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3917/rspt.861.0069 |
