Emile's Role in the Relation between the Social Contract and the Second Discourse

• Grant number: 17/04714-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: July 05, 2017
• End date: January 04, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Yara Adario Frateschi
• Grantee: Johnatas Ximenes Milani
• Supervisor: David Johnston
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Columbia University in the City of New York, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 16/00436-1 - On the conditions of possibility of the ideal society: the possible dialogue between Rousseau's second discourse and social contract, BP.MS

Abstract

This abroad research internship project inserts itself in a broader Master's research that is being developed at the Department of Philosophy of University of Campinas' Institute of Philosophy and Human Science. The objective of the research as a whole is to investigate the possible relation between the Second Discourse and the Social Contract in order to understand how Rousseau's great critic work can be related to his great propositive work. Our hypothesis is that not only the principles of the ideal society specified on the Social Contract aim to face the problems pertaining to the civil state such as characterized in the Second Discourse, but also that the possibility itself of the realization and maintenance of that ideal society depends, not only on the human nature, but also on the potentialities of the human faculties developed along the civilizing process exposed in the Second Discourse. It is indispensable, however, to confirm our hypothesis, that we question the elements that make possible to conceive the passage from the society of the Second Discourse to the ideal society exposed in the Social Contract. Such elements, we believe, can be seen when Rousseau, in Emile, presents the ideal model of moral education of an individual. Our objective in this abroad research internship is to focus on this aspect and thereby investigate the possible contribution of Emile to the understanding of the passage from the society of the Second Discourse to the society of the Social Contract.