Dans la préface aux Confessions, Rousseau déclare se donner en comparaison pour l’étude des hommes qui reste encore à faire. Plus que le récit d’une vie singulière et plus qu’une plaidoirie, l’entreprise autobiographique rousseauiste aurait donc aussi une vocation anthropologique. Mais comment concevoir un tel procédé comparatif définir connaissance qu’il vise dans mesure où lui-même ne cesse p...

O republicanismo é constituído de diversas matrizes, entre elas a matriz inglesa e francesa às quais vinculam-se os pensadores modernos Algernon Sidney Jean-Jacques Rousseau respectivamente. Buscando uma provável relação teórica o autor inglês pensador Genebra quanto à tradição republicana, presente artigo promoverá um exame quiçá reflexão acerca do “espírito republicano” em assinalando as poss...

<p class="Default"> El presente trabajo establece una relación entre dos pensadores de la <em>Filosofía Política </em>Moderna<em>. </em>Dicha está compuesta por los conceptos <em>Opinión </em>y <em>Obediencia </em>cuyos aportes principales recaen sobre noción <em>obediencia política </em>en autores como Tomas Hobbes y Jean-Jacque...

Communities have been concerned with the type of person that children become throughout human history, and scholars have addressed the topic for over two thousand years. Aristotle addressed this issue in the Nichomachean Ethics. Jean Jacques Rousseau faced it directly in Emile in 1762. Over the past century a wealth of data has been amassed concerning the development of morality in children and...

We investigate how a selection of centrality measures can be used to differentiate roles of characters in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiography Les Confessions. We define methods to build automatically a network of characters, based on their co-occurrences. In the resulting network, each character of the novel is a node connected to other nodes representing other characters. We rank these with ...