Abandoned to ourselves [electronic resource] : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, & aimed to uncover tension between those two perspectives-- creationism & social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense & which still impedes the human science of politics ... / Peter Alexander Meyers.

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  • Abandoned to ourselves : being an essay on the emergence and implications of sociology in the writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with special attention to his claims about the moral significance of dependence in the composition and self-transformation of the social bond, and aimed to uncover tensions between those two perspectives-- creationism and social evolution-- that remains embedded in our common sense and which still impede the human science of politics
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  • JC179.R9 M49 2012eb
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Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry -- The moral relevance of dependence -- Nature and the moral frame of society -- Morality in the order of the will.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Society as the ethical starting point for political inquiry -- The moral relevance of dependence -- Nature and the moral frame of society -- Morality in the order of the will.

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