Reason, Passion, and Politics in Rousseau
What role do passion and sentiment play in politics, according to Rousseau? In this article I demonstrate that for Rousseau certain kinds of passion are crucially important to a healthy political society. I argue that passion plays a key role even in the Social Contract, despite that work's app...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Polity 2001-10, Vol.34 (1), p.69-88 |
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Zusammenfassung: | What role do passion and sentiment play in politics, according to Rousseau? In this article I demonstrate that for Rousseau certain kinds of passion are crucially important to a healthy political society. I argue that passion plays a key role even in the Social Contract, despite that work's apparent turn toward the kind of dispassionate reason criticized in the Second Discourse. What is missing from the Social Contract is not political passion but rather the political education of passion. |
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ISSN: | 0032-3497 1744-1684 |
DOI: | 10.2307/3235509 |