Open AccessNATUREZA E TRANSPARÊNCIA EM ROUSSEAU
Author(s) -
Gustavo Cunha Bezerra
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
colloquium humanarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1809-8207
pISSN - 1679-6470
DOI - 10.5747/ch.2012.v09.n1.h117
Subject(s) - philosophy , humanities , epistemology
One of the best known and publicized facets of the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is its defense of natural goodness of men and the condemnation of society as a result of a constant removal of the state of nature. Such a pessimistic diagnosis of modern social life is produced primarily in the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and later in the Discourse on Inequality. In these works, Rousseau argues about the loss of transparency, honest communication of feelings. In the novel The New Heloïse, in turn, creates a small rural community can gather, through the proper use of reason, that transparency lost