Abandoned to ourselves [electronic resource] : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... / Peter Alexander Meyers.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012Description: xxiv, 524 pISBN: 9780300178050 (electronic bk.)Other title: Abandoned to ourselves : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, and aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives-- creationism and social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense and which still impede the human science of politicsSubject(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views | Political sociologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.2 LOC classification: JC179.R9 | M49 2012Online resources: Click to View Includes bibliographical references and index.
Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry -- The moral relevance of dependence -- Nature and the moral frame of society -- Morality in the order of the will.
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