Description: Locke and Rousseau : Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor, Hardcover by Johnson, Laurie M., ISBN 0739147870, ISBN-13 9780739147870, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Laurie Johnson investigates two Enlightenment-era reactions to honor inLocke and Rousseau. She provides an in-depth analysis of how political philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau react differently to the place and importance of honor in society. Locke continues the trend of rejecting honor as a means of achieving order and justice in society, preferring instead the modern motivation of rational self-interest. Johnson explores the possibility of an honor code that is compatible with Lockean liberalism, but also points out the problems inherent in such a project. She then turns to Rousseau, whose reaction to Enlightenment ideas reveals our own “divided mood.” Rousseau’s worries and ambivalence about honor are our worries and ambivalence, and his failed attempt to revise honor in a way that works within the modern system highlights how difficult any project to resurrect the value of honor will be. This book will interest anyone who wonders what happened to honor in our world today, including students of communitarianism. Johnson warns us that we cannot simply look to the past, to the ideals of Locke or other Enlightenment thinkers such as the American founders, for answers to our current family, social, and economic problems, because our problems at least partly stem from Enlightenment liberal thought. Instead we must fully recognize this connection before we can start to formulate a definition of honor that can work for us today.
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Book Title: Locke and Rousseau : Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Publication Name: Locke and Rousseau : Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, European / French, Individual Philosophers, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Theory, Social History
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Laurie M. Johnson
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
