Naslov
Rousseau's conception of government in the work Discourse on Political Economy

Autori
Jakopec, Petar

Izvornik
Disputatio philosophica : international journal on philosophy and religion (1332-1056) 22 (2020), 1; 49-61

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Political Economy, public economy, government, general will, particular will, sovereign, virtue, political community

Sažetak
In this article the author problematizes Rousseau's Discourse on Political Economy and his conception of government in the political community. Rousseau’s Discourse on Political Economy was chronologically written seven years before his major work The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right. Regardless of the fact that the Discourse on Political Economy was published earlier, it left a remarkable trace in Rousseau's philosophical opus. In this work, which was published as part of the fifth volume of Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Rousseau indicated his direction in political philosophy. This philosophical and political direction began with the Discourse on Political Economy and culminated in the philosophical and political conception of republicanism, elaborated in detail in The Social Contract. In this article the author uses critical analysis and reconstruction to establish Rousseau's fundamental ideas about his political philosophy present in the Discourse on Political Economy, with a focus on observing and studying the role of a sovereign and the public economy in the function of the government by general will within the political community.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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