Reason, passion, and politics in Rousseau *.(Jean-Jacques Rousseau) From: Polity | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Hall, Cheryl | COPYRIGHT 2001 Northeastern Political Science Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In a collection of essays entitled Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy, Stephen Holmes characterizes classical liberal theory as centrally concerned with the problems that passions or "irrational motivations" pose to social life. The book begins with an epigram from Alexander Hamilton: "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." (1) In this statement reaso...

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