A questão da natureza nos discursos sobre as ciências e as artes e a desigualdade

Abstract

In the Discourse on the arts and sciences, Rousseau says that science and arts contributed to the corruption of customs. What does the corruption of customs have to do with nature, as expounded in this Discourse? Is there a link between nature in general and human nature? What is the relationship between vices and virtues and the nature? Is this nature the same mentioned in the Discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men? It speaks of what man has made of himself with the passage from the state of nature to the civil state and the customs that have degraded with the development of science and arts. What does all this have to do with nature? This is what those Discourses tell us, allowing us to think about the significance of moral inequality as we think about vices and the absence of virtues through the restoration of science and arts.