A formação do homem virtuoso no Emílio de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Aline de Fatima Sales
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/00130000048z9
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6984
• topic: Virtude; Formação; Sentimento e razão; Vertu; Formation; Sentiment et raison; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This paper approaches the fundamentals of virtuous man in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile in light of the concept of perfectibility, while discussing human formation from a universal perspective. In its totality, the human being is one of reason and emotion, and therefore oscillates between the natural and the civilian dimensions in a trajectory that goes from the moral awakening process to the degeneration of self-love (amour de soi) into a love of self (amour-propre), and natural pity, weakened and vilified by the misfortunes of social life. In the root of this constituted society, I distinguish between Rousseau’s political virtue and moral virtue in the attempt to demonstrate that, in Émile, virtue comprises, too, the whole of man’s reason and sensibility as the mainstay of the formative process, through which new meanings for human existence are constructed. As an advocate for negative education as opposed to the positive model carried on throughout the history of progress, Rousseau sustains it is no good to develop power to reason by flooding the ignorant child with social duties and matters. Instead, the preeminent and harmonic use of senses is a primary role of education and a valuable tool for instilling the ability to reason. Self-knowledge and self-awareness are then particular yet indispensable within a universal order capable of adjusting reason and emotions, duty and will, as well as conforming them to human potentialities by keeping the man in harmony with nature and themself, especially during the development of the moral being.