Natural happiness, sensation, and infancy in Rousseau's Emile. From: Polity | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Smith, Jeffrey A. | COPYRIGHT 2002 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

Until very recently, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has widely been regarded by political theorists as that philosophic hero (or culprit, depending on one's cup of tea) who is responsible for dethroning nature and installing will as the foundation of !aw and right. According to a new view, however, Rousseau intends neither to discredit nor to abandon human nature as the ontological foundation of normative principles. (1) The vast discrepancy between those two interpretations is of course owe...

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