Ordenar as paixões: reconhecimento e sociabilidade no Emílio de Rousseau - primeira parte

Abstract

This article examines in Émile, ou De l’Éducation the order of passions principle as condition of sociability. It is intended to show that, for Rousseau, “ordering human passions” is not just a prophylactic strategy that retains the evil passions that necessarily arise along with self-love throughout Emile’s development, but also an attempt to understand the relationship between Morals and Politics from the point of view of what we would today call “Recognition Theory”. This paper presents the formulation of the problem ‘how to order passions connected with self-love?’ within the framework of the young disciple’s moral education, assuming as hypothesis that the relationship between esteem and consciousness is the theoretical foundation on which Rousseau elaborates a model of sociability that takes into account the idea of recognition.