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| Título: | FROM CRITIC OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO SELF-CRITIC: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND THE ACT OF FOUNDATION OF A VIRTUOUS MORAL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Autor: |
RENATA BARRETO DE FREITAS |
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| Colaborador(es): |
MARCELO GANTUS JASMIN - Orientador |
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| Catalogação: | 07/DEZ/2006 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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| Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9367&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9367&idi=2 |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.9367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This research aims at Jean-Jacques Rousseau and has the
objective of calling
attention to the way he peculiarly constructs his critique
of Enlightenment from the idea
that it is constituted as a historical movement whose
notion of progress and
improvement of the sciences, the letters and the arts
enhanced even more the process of
corruption initiated with man´s insertion in history. It
is exactly in the first Discourse,
in the Letter to D Alembert and in the Confessions that
Rousseau - making use of a
critical philosophy which differs from the erudite
subtlety of the philosophes -
explicitaly breaks with the french members of 18th century
about the worst they have -
the faculty of amour-propre. Although this attribute is
indispensable to the life in
society, the genevan objects to the exaggerated and
disfigured character that it takes on
among the encyclopedists, to the point of turning into the
vice of hypocrisy. His
preocupation in demonstrating against this vice leads to
the understanding that, besides
being a historically situated problem, it is also a vice
against which the virtue of
sincerity, innate in the human nature, is opposed to. That
is why Rousseau considers
himself, besides a critic of the Enlightenment, a self-
critic in relation to also being, in
contradiction with his inclinations, a philosophe. It is
through a confessional exercise
that he places in evidence an ethic of sincerity capable
of revealing the natural man who
is hidden behind the mask of hypocrisy. The context of the
Enlightenment, as a
convention and an artifice, is incapable of revealing the
original identity of each human
being. That is why the genevan presents himself as the
responsible for idealizing the
moral context that will supply it. And the idea of
morality becomes expressive to the
understanding of his dispute with the enlightened party.
Therefore, this research also
investigates how Rousseau founds in these three texts a
new man and a new society
from a remarkable moral guided by the dictates of a
sincerely virtuous conscience.
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