Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym
The paper situates the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the context of the 17th and 18th century social and political debate on the possibility of creating a better society, which intensified with the crisis of feudal system and early modern discovery of the Other. The paper also discusses conseq...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Gdańsk
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/pwe/article/view/826 |
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| Summary: | The paper situates the thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the context of the 17th and 18th century social and political debate on the possibility of creating a better society, which intensified with the crisis of feudal system and early modern discovery of the Other. The paper also discusses consequences of this debate for shaping anthropology as a field of knowledge and understanding culture of the time. The idea of a “noble savage” according to which non-Europeans, i.e., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones.
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| ISSN: | 1734-1582 2451-2230 |