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Locke and Rousseau
Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor|
52,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 26.04.2012 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739147894 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 214 |
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<span><span><span>Laurie Johnson investigates two Enlightenment-era reactions to honor in </span><span>Locke and Rousseau</span><span>. She provides an in-depth analysis of how political philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau react differently to the place and importance of honor in society. Locke continues the trend of rejecting honor as a means of achieving order and justice in society, preferring instead the modern motivation of rational self-interest. Johnson explores the possibility of an honor code that is compatible with Lockean liberalism, but also points out the problems inherent in such a project. She then turns to Rousseau, whose reaction to Enlightenment ideas reveals our own “divided mood.” Rousseau’s worries and ambivalence about honor are our worries and ambivalence, and his failed attempt to revise honor in a way that works within the modern system highlights how difficult any project to resurrect the value of honor will be. This book will interest anyone who wonders what happened to honor in our world today, including students of communitarianism. Johnson warns us that we cannot simply look to the past, to the ideals of Locke or other Enlightenment thinkers such as the American founders, for answers to our current family, social, and economic problems, because our problems at least partly stem from Enlightenment liberal thought. Instead we must fully recognize this connection before we can start to formulate a definition of honor that can work for us today.</span></span></span>
<span><span><span>Johnson continues her analysis of the place of honor in modernity with a close examination of honor’s treatment by two Enlightenment philosophers: Locke and Rousseau, concluding that Enlightenment thought is inherently problematic when it comes to developing moral obligation. Political scientists, students of philosophy, and communitarians alike will find intriguing questions in this book, which calls on us to recognize the flaws of the Enlightenment liberalism that not only determines how we govern ourselves, but how we think about our family, society, and economy.</span></span></span>
<span><span><span>Chapter One: Honor from Hobbes to Locke</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Two: Honor and Education</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Three: On Women, Family and Equality</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Four: The Source of and Solution to Religious Conflict</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Five: Liberalism’s Economic Man</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Six: Rousseau’s Lament for Honor</span></span><br><span><span>Chapter Seven: Emile and Sophie: Modern Honor?</span></span></span>
<span><span><span>Laurie M. Johnson</span><span> is Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University.</span></span></span>
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