Book contents
- The Challenge of Rousseau
- The Challenge of Rousseau
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Politics and Economics
- Part II Science and Epistemology
- Part III The Modern or Classical, Theological or Philosophical, Foundations of Rousseau’s System
- Part IV Rousseau as Educator and Legislator
- 9 The Measure of the Possible
- 10 Rousseau’s French Revolution
- 11 Rousseau’s Challenge to Locke (and to Us)
- 12 Stalking Puer Robustus
- Part V Unease, Happiness, and Death
- Index
11 - Rousseau’s Challenge to Locke (and to Us)
from Part IV - Rousseau as Educator and Legislator
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
Book contents
- The Challenge of Rousseau
- The Challenge of Rousseau
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Politics and Economics
- Part II Science and Epistemology
- Part III The Modern or Classical, Theological or Philosophical, Foundations of Rousseau’s System
- Part IV Rousseau as Educator and Legislator
- 9 The Measure of the Possible
- 10 Rousseau’s French Revolution
- 11 Rousseau’s Challenge to Locke (and to Us)
- 12 Stalking Puer Robustus
- Part V Unease, Happiness, and Death
- Index
Summary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke both take up the daunting task of educating free individuals, a task whose success is threatened by a parent's or tutor's need to rule over children who cannot rationally consent. Rousseau's objection to Locke centers not on Rousseau's demand for something better than sobriety and moderation but on his considered view that Lockean man has neither of those things. The trouble with Lockean man is not that he is inauthentic or insufficiently inner-directed, but that he is a would-be tyrant who in his heart of hearts despises reason and morality. This chapter explains how esteem and disgrace fit into Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Rousseau's attack on Locke, then, far from depending on an appeal to newer and higher political goals, like authenticity, imply that Lockean education undermines very old and modest political goals.
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- The Challenge of Rousseau , pp. 253 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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