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Rousseau on the state of nature 5 Jan 2012 | 03:50 am
“I had a dismal Prospect of my Condition, for as I was not cast away upon that Island without being driven, as is said, by a violent Storm quite out of the Course of our intended Voyage, and a great W...
Rousseau on a botanical model of science 28 Dec 2011 | 06:05 am
Jean Jacques’ self-contained passion for botanic endeavours, his love for ‘herborisation’, confirmed a certain organization and system in nature, a ‘chaîne de rapports et de combinaisons’.(1) This ac...
Nature’s integrity and its signs 26 Dec 2011 | 05:58 am
Being part of nature it was difficult to segregate its components into parts, there was rather an all-embracing wholeness that did not admit distinction. An identification with nature as a totality oc...
Nature and its creatures 24 Dec 2011 | 05:45 am
The most delicate and simple creatures are those preferred by a harmless simple soul. Those that were still affected to nature could not be evil.(1) Simplicity was decanted into man’s soul asseveratin...
Rousseau on reverie and natural inclinations 22 Dec 2011 | 02:57 am
Summarizing, those were the three main functions of nature instilled in Rousseau’s plane of construction: Nature as a historical, positive, origin, nature as a counterpoint to the civilized, and final...
Rousseau on Children 15 Oct 2011 | 07:58 am
Originally children, like all natural creatures linked to their origin, are good. Education caused vice and forgetfulness about their truthful probity.(1) Nature provided us with the means to conserva...
Nature and the civilized 14 Oct 2011 | 07:52 am
Rousseau’s idealization of nature ran parallel to his deprecation of man’s creativity and invention. “Les hommes, dans leur travaux, ne font rien de beau que par imitation. Tous les vrais modèles du g...
Rousseau on Nature 12 Oct 2011 | 07:46 am
Rousseau signed an eclogue to countryside life in which he grew from his infancy with its simplicity and easiness.(1) Mother nature, rather than father God, depicted a plentiful and loving caregiver, ...
Music and the quest for authenticity 10 Oct 2011 | 07:45 am
Music, to which he would dedicate much of his life as composer, copyist, and amateur, could communicate this natural harmony. Its cathartic effect on the audience, experienced in his acclaimed Le Devi...
Rousseau and the appraisal of nature 19 Jun 2011 | 04:29 am
“Es ist wunderbar: wie ich hierher kam und vom Hügel in das schöne Tal schaute, wie es mich rings umher anzog. – dort das Wäldchen! – ach könntest du dich in seine Schatten mischen! – dort die Spitze ...
