![]() (Hence Rousseau's analysis of unity is also his defense of justice.) Psychic and social unity are more or less attainable in the just state through patriotism and virtue (“morality”), but perfect psychic unity is possible only beyond society and morality. ![]() There can be no psychic unity in society without true social unity. Thus modern or bourgeois society, which builds on this contradiction by deriving men's sociability from their selfishness, necessarily divides their souls. Unity of soul, which is natural, is lost in society through the contradiction of personal dependence: using others entails serving them. Restricted to current U-M faculty, staff. What, then, is this corruption? What, in Rousseau's view, is the problem of bourgeois society? The corruption, I argue, is disunity of soul, through which men lose the fullness of existence they seek by nature. The Family and the State in Rousseaus Emile, Or on Education. ![]() ![]() ![]() He argued that good education should develop the nature of man. The heart of Rousseau's thought, as he himself declared, is the claim that society (especially bourgeois society), while necessary now to man's preservation, corrupts the life it fosters. Rousseau, in his A Discourse on Inequality, an account of the historical development of the human race, distinguished between natural man (man as formed by nature) and social man (man as shaped by society). ![]()
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