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Le Maitre de Claville belongs to the tradition of classicist moralism and attempts to fulfill the difficult task of portraying the honorable man, 'honnete hommme'. Trying to define the concept of virtue, he refers to his own aesthetic taste, subjective emotions of happiness, the ecstasy and bliss which come from the experience of beauty. With much liberty, he includes in his account of the honorable...
AThe article offers an interpretation of Rousseau's 'Emile' as an account of a social situation in which man can be recovered from alienation and live according to his nature; the other three situations are: the republic, a small community outside society, and solitude. Rousseau's Emile lives in a society but he keeps distance from its members; indeed, he lives on the margin of the community. Being...
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