Rousseau and Hobbes Nature Free Will and the Passions 1st Edition by Robin Douglass 0198724969 9780198724964

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ISBN 10: 0198724969
ISBN 13: 9780198724964
Author: Robin Douglass

Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau’s critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was, despite its protestations to the contrary, indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the origins of society. Throughout the book Douglass explores the reasons why Rousseau both followed and departed from Hobbes in different places, while resisting the temptation to present him as either a straightforwardly Hobbesian or anti-Hobbesian thinker. On the one hand, Douglass reveals the extent to which Rousseau was occupied with problems of a fundamentally Hobbesian nature and the importance, to both thinkers, of appealing to the citizens’ passions in order to secure political unity. On the other hand, Douglass argues that certain ideas at the heart of Rousseau’s philosophy–free will and the natural goodness of man–were set out to distance him from positions associated with Hobbes. Douglass advances an original interpretation of Rousseau’s political philosophy, emerging from this encounter with Hobbesian ideas, which focuses on the interrelated themes of nature, free will, and the passions. Douglass distances his interpretation from those who have read Rousseau as a proto-Kantian and instead argues that his vision of a well-ordered republic was based on cultivating man’s naturally good passions to render the life of the virtuous citizen in accordance with nature.

Rousseau and Hobbes Nature Free Will and the Passions 1st Table of contents

1. The French Reception of Thomas Hobbes
Nicole, Bayle, and the Moral–Political Emphasis
Malebranche’s Critique of Hobbes
Barbeyrac, Burlamaqui, and Natural Law
Montesquieu Against Hobbes
Diderot and the Encyclopédie
Hobbes Before Rousseau
2. The State of Nature and the Nature of Man
The State of Nature and the State of War
Free Will and Man’s Moral Nature
Natural Goodness and the Recovery of the Golden Age
Harmony, Contradiction, and the Hobbesian Moment
Rousseau’s Critique, Reappraised
3. Sovereignty and Law
From the State of Nature to Political Society
Free Will, Slavery, and Obligation
Sovereignty Inverted
Freedom Preserved
Law, Nature, and Denaturing
Unity and Civil Religion
4. Ordering the Passions
Neutralizing amour-propre
Cultivating Love of Fatherland
Free Will and Virtue
Reason and the Passions
Hobbes and Fear
Of Love and Fear
Review and Conclusion
Rousseau’s Engagement with Hobbes in Context
Philosophical Oppositions and Affinities
Republics for the Naturally Good
Bibliography

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