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      Rousseau's Ethics of Truth
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      A Sublime Science of Simple Souls

      Rousseau's Ethics of Truth

      DOI link for Rousseau's Ethics of Truth

      Rousseau's Ethics of Truth book

      A Sublime Science of Simple Souls
      ByJason Neidleman
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 19 July 2016
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315623009
      Pages 266
      eBook ISBN 9781315623009
      Subjects Humanities
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      Neidleman, J. (2016). Rousseau's Ethics of Truth: A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315623009

      ABSTRACT

      In 1758, Rousseau announced that he had adopted "vitam impendere vero" (dedicate life to truth) as a personal pledge. Despite the dramatic nature of this declaration, no scholar has yet approached Rousseau’s work through the lens of truth or truthseeking. What did it mean for Rousseau to lead a life dedicated to truth?

      This book presents Rousseau’s normative account of truthseeking, his account of what human beings must do if they hope to discover the truths essential to human happiness. Rousseau’s writings constitute a practical guide to these truths; they describe how he arrived at them and how others might as well. In reading Rousseau through the lens of truth, Neidleman traverses the entirety of Rousseau's corpus, and, in the process, reveals a series of symmetries among the disparate themes treated in those texts. The first section of the book lays out Rousseau’s general philosophy of truth and truthseeking. The second section follows Rousseau down four distinct pathways to truth: reverie, republicanism, religion, and reason. With a strong grounding in both the Anglophone and Francophone scholarship on Rousseau, this book will appeal to scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |12 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      Part One Rousseau’s Ethics of Truthseeking

      chapter 1|9 pages

      Rousseau’s “Great Principle”

      chapter 2|24 pages

      Communion

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Ethics of Truthseeking

      part |2 pages

      Part Two Rousseau’s Pathways to Truth

      chapter 4|32 pages

      Reverie 75

      chapter 5|29 pages

      Republicanism

      chapter 6|46 pages

      Religion

      chapter 7|48 pages

      Reason

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