Jean-Jacques Rousseau defended human freedom in individual and social dimensions. The basis for human freedom was natural freedom, appropriate to the primitive man, who lived in a state of nature. For Rousseau the original freedom was obedience to the laws of nature. In the social sphere it corresponded to the freedom as obedience to the general will, which was manifested in law. In the life of particular person freedom meant renouncing artificial needs.
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Jan Jakub Rousseau broni wolności człowieka w wymiarze indywidualnym i społecznym. Podstawą wolności jest wolność naturalna, właściwa człowiekowi pierwotnemu, żyjącemu w stanie natury. Wolność pierwotna jest posłuszeństwem wobec praw natury. W sferze społecznej odpowiada jej wolność jako posłuszeństwo woli powszechnej, przejawiającej się w prawie. W życiu osobistym wolność polega na wyrzeczeniu się sztucznych potrzeb.
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The aim of this article is to briefly discuss several motifs connected with language in Rousseau’s writing about upbringing. The most important of these are Rousseau’s insights into language acquisition which, in many ways, correspond with the discoveries of contemporary psycho-linguistics. We shall also consider the principle of linguistic parsimony as a basic rule of upbringing. This rule has serious consequences not for all areas of upbringing but also for Rousseau’s conception of the relation between the human mind and ideas. After examining several concrete examples which Rousseau uses to demonstrate the necessity of this rule, we point to one basic exception to this general principle – this is the function of language in the curbing of sexual fantasies in the maturing human being.
Autobiographical memory is a specific kind of memory concerning events and issues related to yourself. Your conception of your own life involves narratives in which all of yours experiences are interrelated. Autobiographical memory connects your present self with your past experiences (that’s why it’s important for theories about continuity of self). In this article I will analyse autobiographical texts of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the context of autobiographical memory theories.
Plutarch, beside Homer, Socrates and Alexander the Great, was one of the important figures in Norwid’s intellectual and artistic biography. Apart from Herodotus he was the main source of Norwid’s knowledge of Greek history and culture. Norwid’s readings are also inscribed in the reception of Plutarch by the French language readers, as he read his works in Amyot’s translation of the beginning of the 19th century that was so important for French literature. The significance of Plutarch for Norwid’s works is particularly well seen when the influence of the Greek historian is considered on writing the poem Epimenides and the drama Cleopatra and Ceasar. Both these works are a proof that he intensively and creatively thought over some of the Parallel Lives, that he treated as sources of historical and cultural knowledge.
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For more than two hundred years now, the artistic heritage of the French naïve painter Henri Rousseau “Le Douanier” has not been stopping to amaze people and leading to very diverse reactions. One of artistic headlines of his era states: ”Mr. Henri Rousseau creates horrible things that amuse”. His paintings, often described as being ”naïve” or ”primitive”, are actually not as trivial as they may seem. They are in fact a result of thorough analysis augmented with the authors visions of distant lands and exotics. And while some regard his talent as a subject of ridicule, others adore it - especially the members of the Paris Avant-garde. This article focuses on paintings that belong to the “Jungle” series, made between 1891 and 1910, and shows the origins of the revolutionary perception of the world and nature as perceived by Rousseau. These origins along with his endless imagination enabled the painter to create complex collages from the images he found in Paris zoos and botanical gardens. After breaking the chains of rigid saloon rules and artistic education Henri Rousseau turned his “naivety” into his greatest weapon. After that he could develop his visions of fairytale jungles full of diverse colors, light and wild animals that await their next pray.
The presented paper provides analysis of the notion ‘autobiographism’ contextualised in the literary output of the Polish poet of the enlightenment, Franciszek Karpiński. The question of autobiographism is presented in terms of the literature and philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau. This analysis of the phenomena of authenticity and autobiographicality is concerned with constructing oneself in literature as illustrated by certain works, with the primacy of the mundane The History Of My Age And People With Whom I Lived. The essay draws on The Confessions by Rousseau with a view to specifying the connections between these two novels. The consciousness of the impact Rousseau had on the European sense of literature breaks new ground in the interpretation of the legacy of Karpiński. It also enables the recognition of the complete and compact project situated on the verge of literature and philosophy. The breakthrough of this project is contained in the priority given to the Polish historical literary process and the novelty of the autobiographical attitude, which is considered through the application of basic conceptions concerning autobiographism and the modern identity project of the aesthetic human.
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Szkic poświęcony jest zagadnieniu autobiografizmu w twórczości Franciszka Karpińskiego ujmowanemu pod kątem jego związków z twórczością i filozofią Jana Jakuba Rousseau. Analiza zjawisk autentyczności i autobiograficzności dotyka kwestii konstruowania siebie w literaturze na przykładzie konkretnych utworów, z których najważniejszym jest przełomowa dla historii polskiej literatury powieść Karpińskiego Historia mego wieku i ludzi z którymi żyłem. Przedmiotem analizy są m.in. jej związki z Wyznaniami Rousseau. Świadomość wpływu Rousseau na europejskie pojmowanie literatury otwiera nowe perspektywy interpretacyjne twórczości Karpińskiego. Pozwala także dostrzec w jego pisarstwie elementy kompletnego, spójnego projektu sytuującego się na granicy literatury i filozofii. Jego przełomowość polega na pierwszeństwie w polskim procesie historycznoliterackim oraz nowatorstwie postawy autobiograficznej, którą rozpatruję w odniesieniu do podstawowych koncepcji dotyczących autobiografizmu, a także nowoczesnego projektu tożsamościowego człowieka estetycznego.
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The article provides with the analysis of the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Hölderlin in a specific, philosophical and aesthetic perspective in order to reveal relationships between them that would be hard to demonstrate in other interpretational approaches. The term “holy dream” was coined by a German poet and it denotes the experiences of a Swiss philosopher that took place by the Bienne lake in 1765; they were described in The Confessions and Reveries of a Solitary Walker. In the light of the anticipation of indifference one can see the importance of Rousseau’s “holy dream” for the works of Hölderlin even in the works that do not directly refer to the works of the Swiss thinker, what was shown on the example of the hymn Mnemosyne. The theoretical background of presented interpretations is the question of the challenges of indifference and the analysis of Theodor W. Adorno, Gaston Bachelard, and George Poulet.
Diverse concepts of animality have played important role within the processes of modern secularisation and its anti-theological turn in the modern making of “man.” By turning the conceptual focus towards the animal side of human being, and specifically by describing and explaining “the human nature” in terms of its “animality,” modern philosophical anthropology has changed, gradually, into naturalistic, godless discourse of a purely material life. The discovery of the “animal in man,” its increasing impact through evolution theory eventually led to the denial of human supremacy. Since secularisation in its essence intends to emancipate humanity, it is interesting how animalisation can be related to emancipation. In the article Montaigne’s conception of animality is examined as an early case of this thinking.
Peter Redpath is a distinguished historian of philosophy. He believes that the best way to acquire a philosophical education is through the study of philosophy’s history. Because he is convinced that ideas have consequences, he holds that the history of philosophy illuminates important events in history. Philosophy is a necessary condition for sound education, which, in turn, is a necessary condition for cultural and political leadership. Hence, the way educators and leaders shape culture reflects the effects of philosophy on culture. In light of this background, it is possible to discern in Redpath’s account of the history of philosophy a corresponding philosophy of history. This emerges as he explains how philosophers have produced changes in thinking that have profound consequences for the culture at large. Some of these changes, many of them significant, have been positive, but others have been disastrous. Much of Redpath’s philosophy of history diagnoses what went wrong in the history of philosophy so as to indicate why modern culture suffers considerable disorder. The good news is that Redpath’s philosophy of history prescribes ways to correct Western Civilization’s current malaise.
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