Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow for human goodness. He uses the fictional story of Emile and his tutor to outline his ideas. The book was banned and publicly burned on its publication, but became a European bestseller and provided a basis for new education systems.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story Era1800s / Victorian
Protagonist / CoreEmile or Education Lead Character
Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points of view, are characteristic of his best period of authorship.
THEORIEDE LATERREPREMIER DISCOURSDE LA MANIERE D'ETUDIER ET DE TRAITER L'HISTOIRE NATURELLEl'histoire naturelle, prise dans toute son etendue, est une histoire immense ; elle embrasse tous les objets que nous presente l'univers. Cette multitude prodigieuse de quadrupedes, d'oiseaux, de poissons, d'insectes, de plantes, de mineraux, etc.., offre a la curiosite de l'esprit humain un vaste spectacle dont l'ensemble est si grand, qu'il parait et qu'il est en effet inepuisable dans les details. Une seule partie de l'histoire naturelle, comme l'histoire des insectes, ou l'histoire des plantes, suffit pour occuper plusieurs hommes ; et les plus habiles observateurs n'ont donne, apres un travail de plusieurs annees, que des ebauches assez imparfaites des objets trop multiplies que presentent ces branches particulieres de l'histoire naturelle, auxquelles ils s'etaient uniquement attaches : cependant ils ont fait tout ce qu'ils pouvaient faire, et bien loin de s'en prendre aux observateurs du peu d'avancement de la science, on ne saurait trop louer leur assiduite au travail et leur patience, on ne peut meme leur refuser des qualites plus elevees ; car il y a une espece de force de genie et de courage d'esprit a pouvoir envisager, sans s'etonner, la nature, dans la multitude innombrable de ses productions, et a se croire capable de les comprendre et de les comparer ; il y a une espece de gout a les aimer, plus grand que le gout qui n'a pour but que des objets particuliers, et on peut dire que l'amour de l'etude de la nature suppose dans l'esprit deux qualites qui paraissent opposees, les grandes vues d'un genie ardent qui embrasse tout d'un coup d'oeil, et les petites attentions d'un instinct laborieux qui ne s'attache qu'a un seul point.
This book begins the publication of Jonathan Edwards' personal theological notebooks, called collectively the "Miscellanies." The entries in Volume 13 span the early years of Edwards' ministry (1722-31) and range widely in subject matter. They record Edwards' initial thoughts on some of his most characteristic ideas, for example, original sin, free will, the Trinity, and God's end in creation. Many entries, however, relate to doctrinal and polemical subjects not included in the corpus of Edwards' published writings. The volume also contains Edwards' alphabetical index to the entire "Miscellanies"; this "Table" is a theological document in its own right and reveals the interrelationship among the various components of Edwards' theological system.
The figure of Johann Gottfried Herder looms increasingly important not only for his prescient contributions to many fields - biblical criticism, philosophy of language, literary criticism, philosophy of history - but also for his pivotal position between the impulses of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Many of Herder's questions and concerns are more pressing at the end of the modern era than they were at its inception. Bunge's lucid and engaging translations of signal texts from Herder - most appearing here for the first time in English - are arranged thematically: human nature, language, and history; myth and religion; God and nature; literature and the Bible; and Christianity and theology. Along with her extensive Introduction and Bibliography, they constitute an essential resource for coming to terms with the checkered legacy of the Enlightenment. -- Back cover.
Emile or Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Literally Just Books
