Rousseau e o cosmopolitismo

Lucas Mello Carvalho Ribeiro

doi:10.32459/revistalumen.v8i16.261

Authors

Lucas Mello Carvalho Ribeiro Centro Universitário FAESA (campus Vitória/ES) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4991-3815

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32459/revistalumen.v8i16.261

Keywords:

Rousseau, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, general will

Abstract

One intends to present Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s view on cosmopolitanism, from the early praise of the cosmopolitan feeling to the thorough critique of the latter developed in his major political works. If in some minor writings of his youth, following the hegemonic position on the matter in the eighteenth century, Rousseau deemed love of humanity to be the noblest virtue one could possess, at least since the Discourse on political economy (1755) this stance is profoundly revised. From then on, cosmopolitanism is regarded with suspicion if not disdain by the Genevan thinker, reputed as a “chimera”, a “paper virtue”, insofar as humanity would be too abstract of a construct to incite any kind of real attachment. More often than not, cosmopolitanism serves but as a subterfuge for those who wish to excuse themselves from their civic obligations. Rousseau’s critical appraisal of cosmopolitanism is indeed inextricable from his republicanism and goes hand in hand with the championing of civic virtue and patriotism, two central categories of his political philosophy, which will, therefore, merit some consideration. Furthermore, one proposes to demonstrate that said criticism is a necessary corollary of his refusal of natural right as well as of his particular concept of general will.

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Author Biography

Lucas Mello Carvalho Ribeiro, Centro Universitário FAESA (campus Vitória/ES)

Mestre e Doutor em Filosofia pela UFMG. Membro da Associação Brasileira de Estudos do Século XVIII.

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