Abandoned to ourselves [electronic resource] : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... / Peter Alexander Meyers.
2012
JC179.R9 M49 2012eb
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Abandoned to ourselves [electronic resource] : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... / Peter Alexander Meyers.
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Meyers, Peter Alexander.
ISBN
9780300172058
9780300178050 (electronic book)
9780300178050 (electronic book)
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
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English
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xxiv, 524 p.
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JC179.R9 M49 2012eb
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306.2
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry
The moral relevance of dependence
Nature and the moral frame of society
Morality in the order of the will.
The moral relevance of dependence
Nature and the moral frame of society
Morality in the order of the will.