The General Will before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic (Princeton Legacy Library: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Band 465) - Hardcover

Riley, Patrick

 
9780691635163: The General Will before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic (Princeton Legacy Library: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Band 465)
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ISBN 10: 0691635161 ISBN 13: 9780691635163
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2016

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Patrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly" that some men be damned? The theological origin of the "general will" was important to Rousseau himself. He uses the language of divinity bequeathed to him by Pascal, Malebranche, Fenelon, and others to dignify, to elevate, and to "save" politics.

Originally published in 1986.

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Patrick Riley

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"This is a remarkable book--a learned, lucid, and original study of the gradual transformation of a concept that derives much of its force from its until now forgotten origins. No one has ever told this story before."--Judith N. Shklar, Harvard University

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691635161
ISBN 13 
9780691635163
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Anzahl der Seiten
294
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