Human nature and politics in the political thought of J.-J. Rousseau

ISBN-13: 9786205100448 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str.

Konan Kan Yamé Valéry KOUAO

Opis

In the state of nature, man leads a relatively peaceful life, because freedom and equality are inherent to his nature. However, he has no relationship with his fellow man. However, Rousseau concedes him the quality to improve himself: perfectibility. It is by virtue of this perfectibility that man progressively passes from animality to humanity, i.e. from dispersion to group life or socio-political life. Perfectibility thus ensures the adequacy between the state of nature and the political state and denotes that the natural order is mutable. Thus, humanity is played out in life in society. However, society carries within itself the seeds of conflict. All evils are social realities and not natural, because society is not natural. But is this situation immutable? Rousseau's answer is no! Because, on the basis of a rational social contract intelligible to the ante-political human prerogatives, the man can change the social order. From this point of view, Rousseau's political thought is not obsolete; on the contrary, it offers us conceptual tools capable of emancipating society from any arbitrary political order.

O autorze

Dr. KOUAO Konan Kan Yamé Valéry is of Ivorian nationality. He is a Dr. in Political and Moral Philosophy; specialist in philosophical foundation of human rights, civism and citizenship, peace and sustainable development. Mr. KOUAO is married and has three (3) children, two boys and one girl.