Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter - Couverture rigide

Griswold, Charles L

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138218952 ISBN 13 : 9781138218956

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like?

In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold's wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order.

A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles L. Griswold is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Self-knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment and Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration, editor of Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings, and co-editor (with David Konstan) of Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138218952
• ISBN 13: 9781138218956
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276
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