Charles L Griswold

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Encounter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyses, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315436555
• Artikelnr.: 49986954

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Griswold is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Self-knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment and Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration, editor of Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings, and co-editor (with David Konstan) of Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Narcissism
self-knowledge
and social critique: from Rousseau's Preface to Narcissus to Adam Smith 2. Genealogical narrative
self-knowledge
and the scope of philosophy 3. Sociability
pitié and sympathy 4. "To be" and "to appear": self-falsification
exchange
and freedom 5. Liberty
civil religion
and "sentiments of sociability" Epilogue Bibliography Index