Philosophical history against Rousseau
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v22i3p91-106Keywords:
history, conjecture, savage, eloquenceAbstract
The aim of the article is to show how philosophical history, as conceived in the Enlightenment, was used as a kind of weapon against the conjectural method as delineated by Rousseau in the second Discourse. A prime example of such a strategy is William Robertson’s History of America, in which the savage American is taken as a type for natural man that, as such, is part of a general theory of the development of society through stages. The theoretical and critical qualities of Robertson’s work did not escape Edmund Burke, its first and prominent reader.Downloads
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