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Format: XVI, 223 S. : graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0-271-01922-0 , 0-271-01923-9

Note: Zugl.: Durham, N.C., Duke Univ., Diss.

Language: English

Subjects: Romance Studies , Philosophy

Keywords: 1712-1778 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; Lebenssinn ; Naturphilosophie ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: xxi, 249 Seiten ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-226-82501-4 , 978-0-226-82499-4

Content: "Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom reveals what could be thought of as the capstone of Rousseau's thought, even if that capstone has been nearly invisible to readers. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue, Rousseau, argues Laurence D. Cooper, held the philosophic life as an ideal. Cooper expertly unpacks Rousseau's vivid depiction of the philosophic life and the case for that life as the most natural, the freest, or, in short, the best or most choice-worthy of lives. Cooper focuses especially on a single feature, arguably the defining feature of the philosophic life: the overcoming of the ordinary moral consciousness in favor of the cognitivist view of morality. Cooper shows that Rousseau, with his particular understanding and embrace of the philosophic life, proves to be a kind of latter-day Socratic. Thorough and thought-provoking, Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom provides vital insight into Rousseau"--

Note: Preface -- Introduction : after the cave -- Part I. The life of philosophy and the life of Rousseau; The reveries of the solitary walker : an introduction -- Part II. "What am I?" : first walk; "A faithful record" : second walk; Becoming a philosopher : third walk; Being a philosopher : fourth, fifth, and sixth walks; Becoming a more perfect philosopher : seventh, eighth, and ninth walks; Coda : the love of wisdom and the wisdom of love : tenth walk

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-82500-7

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: 1712-1778 Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; Philosophie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XII, 357 S.

ISBN: 978-0-271-03330-3

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: v427-v347 Plato ; Eros ; 1712-1778 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; Eros ; 1844-1900 Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Eros

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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ISSN: 0010-2601

In: Commentary, New York, NY : American Jewish Committee, 1945, Vol( 126 (October 2008) 3), Seite 24-29, 0010-2601

Language: English

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ISSN: 0010-2601

In: Commentary, New York, NY : American Jewish Committee, 1945, Vol( 126 (October 2008) 3), Seite 24-29, 0010-2601

In: volume:Vol

In: year: 126 (October 2008) 3

In: pages:24-29

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 357 p. )

ISBN: 0-271-03506-4

Uniform Title: Project Muse UPCC books

Content: Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza’s notion of conatus and Hobbes’s identification of “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power.” In this book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper’s overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , The Republic as prologue -- Platonic eros : the effectual truth -- Rousseau and the expansiveness of being -- Nietzsche's new eternity. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-271-03330-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780271035062

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Format: 1 online resource (376 p.)

ISBN: 9780271035062

Content: Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza’s notion of conatus and Hobbes’s identification of “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power.” In this book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper’s overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Introduction: The Oneness of Desire—But Which One -- , 1 The Republic as Prologue -- , PART ONE Platonic Eros—the Effectual Truth -- , 2 First Truths -- , 3 What Does Eros Want -- , 4 Love of Wisdom versus Love of the Wise: Eros in Action -- , PART TWO Rousseau and the Expansiveness of Being -- , 5 Between Eros and Will to Power: Rousseau and ‘‘The Desire to Extend Our Being’’ -- , 6 Emile, or On Philosophy -- , PART THREE Nietzsche’s New Eternity -- , 7 Nietzsche’s Politeia, I -- , 8 Nietzsche’s Politeia, II -- , 9 Will to Power versus Eros, or a Battle of Eternities -- , Epilogue: One or Many -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780271035062

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271035062

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271035062

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271035062

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271035062

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Format: 1 online resource (xxi, 249 pages).

ISBN: 9780226825007

Series Statement: Chicago scholarship online

Content: A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue, Rousseau, argues Laurence D. Cooper, held the philosophic life as an ideal. Cooper expertly unpacks Rousseau's vivid depiction of the philosophic life and the case for that life as the most natural, the freest, or, in short, the best or most choice-worthy of lives. Cooper focuses especially on a single feature, arguably the defining feature of the philosophic life: the overcoming of the ordinary moral consciousness in favor of the cognitivist view of morality.

Note: Also issued in print: 2023.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780226824994

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226825007.001.0001

URL: Oxford Academic