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- Title
ROUSSEAU'NUN TOPLUMSALLAŞMA KURGUSUNU SPİNOZA'YLA YENİDEN OKUMAK.
- Authors
GÜNOK, Emrah
- Abstract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the philosopher who reflected on the grounds of law and right by means of the social contract which is but the effort of bringing the divine authority down to earth. However, he also referred to this same ground of social convention as the only possible source for any kind of inequality between human beings. To understand Rousseau as one of the most important figures of contractarianism, one would be required to read his philosophy especially in terms of his conception of 'general will' (volonté générale). This conception, as it was used throughout the Social Contract, would make it possible to understand better the role of human desire in the process of socialization, which seems to have remained suspend between society and nature. According to him, the main target of political thinking is to answer the question as a result of which rational decision-makings would the plurality of individual desires (volonté particulière) be reduced to the general will of the common people. What we will try to show in this article is that rereading Rousseau in terms of Spinoza who denied separating reason from body and emotions, would emphasize the feeble vein of naturalism lying hidden in his philosophy. Such an effort would help us understand better Rousseau's conception of the transformation of power to right.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 19, p194
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article