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accountability 46
administration 8283 , 138 , 161 , 163. See also graduated promotion
advertising vii
aesthetics viii , ix , 7 , 103
agreements 113
agriculture xi , 4041 , 44 , 54 , 57 , 5861 , 6566 , 86 , 95 , 96 , 144146 , 149 , 153
Ahrens, Heinrich 158 , 168 , 169
Althusius, Johannes 172173 , 174 , 175 , 176
and Stoics 172
amour-de-soi xi , 14 , 52 , 100 , 101 , 103 , 118 , 119120 , 122131 , 132134 , 165
amour-propre 1314 , 15 , 52 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 108 , 119 , 122 , 124125 , 127131 , 132134 , 165
animals 6264 , 147. See also diet ; instincts ; perfectibility
Antraigues, comte d’ 1213
apperception 147148
aristocracy, elected 76. See also federal government ; government ; gradated promotion
arts and sciences 2 , 10 , 16 , 115116
autonomy 84 , 112 , 150 , 166
of society 15354. See also civil society ; Hegel ; individualism ; Jellinek ; Kant
balance of power 2122 , 28 , 68 , 8485 , 140
Barante, Prosper de 143
Beaumont, Christophe de vii , 122125 , 127
beauty 103 , 118. See also aesthetics
Bernardi, Bruno 53
Beseler, Georg 170
Bildung 148
bitcoin vii
Bluntschli, Johann Caspar 168170
body, political 74. See also organism
Bonaparte, Napoleon 174
Brissot, Jacques-Pierre 6
Britain 3132
Bundesstaat 23 , 138 , 156
Burke, Edmund 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 16 , 87 , 91 , 116
and Marie-Antoinette 4
on revolution 78
Butler, Joseph 9
Cabet, Etienne 168 , 169
Caird, Edward 150152
Capet, Hugues 38
Carthage 32
Cassirer, Ernst 13 , 14 , 16 , 30 , 5254 , 174 , 176
and the problem of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1314 , 5253 , 174 , 176
causation 29 , 31 , 4344 , 54 , 5859 , 6364 , 86 , 89 , 140 , 143. See also theodicy
centralisation x , 27 , 28 , 31 , 36 , 5254 , 171
chemistry, “philosophical” 93
China 45
citizenship, and sovereignty 69 , 70 , 71 , 150
civil religion 71 , 168
civil society xiii , 72 , 150 , 153154 , 156157 , 158 , 160 , 166 , 168 , 169 , 173
or bürgerliche Gesellschaft 154
or société bourgeoise 154. See also Althusius ; Bluntschli ; Gierke ; Hegel ; Jellinek
Clarke, Samuel 9
Cloots, Anacharsis 6
commerce. See trade
competition, commercial 26 , 85
Comte, Auguste 158
Condillac, abbé Gabriel Bonnot de 95 , 146
Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de 137
conquest, peaceful 26
conscience 53 , 86 , 116 , 118126 , 128 , 129131 , 132 , 133 , 165
and love of beauty 118
constitution 21 , 32 ;
English 32 , 3943
federal 139 , 175
in Montesquieu 32 , 3643
continuity 46
Corsica 23 , 80 , 8283 , 138. See also Rousseau
credit 4142 , 159163 , 177
credulity, and complexity 34 , 1617 , 25 , 27 , 28 , 88
culture 146149
currency, fiat 82 , 162 , 177. See also money
d’Alembert 10 , 12 , 17 , 65 , 74 , 89 , 9293 , 117 , 119 , 135
debt. See public debt
decentralisation x , 27 , 28 , 84
democracy xiii , 45 , 15 , 27 , 4950 , 69 , 73 , 113 , 140 , 163 , 174
social 163. See also Stein
Dent, Nicholas 53
Derathé, Robert 16
Derrida, Jacques 16 , 53
desire 5960 , 97. See also imagination
Dicey, Alfred Venn 139140 , 172
Diderot, Denis 2 , 3 , 10 , 12 , 17 , 22 , 74 , 89 , 117 , 135
diet, human 19 , 55 , 56 , 58 , 65 , 86 , 95 , 98 , 145146
disenchantment 16
division of labour 4 , 7 , 29 , 30 , 54 , 55 , 57 , 6061 , 63 , 65 , 67 , 68 , 80 , 95 , 115 , 136 , 149 , 160 , 176
double-bind, in Rousseau 88 , 99 , 102 , 122 , 123 , 125 , 149 , 161. See also Fénelon problem ; Stein
dualism xi , 40 , 46 , 117 , 136137 , 138 , 149 , 152 , 159 , 163
Dubos, Jean-Baptiste 101
duelling 9293
Dupin, Claude 33
Durkheim, Emile 156 n27
economics, and politics 36
elections 22 , 4546 , 7273 , 77 , 8485 , 137 , 163. See also gradated promotion
emotions 19 , 88 , 98 , 116 , 121
empire 26
enthusiasm 98 , 103 , 104105 , 118
Epicureanism, and Rousseau 61 , 90 , 100 , 144
equality 57 , 113. See also inequality
evidence 164
exchange 113
faction, and party 79
Fall 133 ;
in Rousseau and Kant 94. See also Cassirer ; theodicy
fault 164
federal system vii , ix , xi , 6 , 12 , 2122 , 23 , 24 , 77 , 8485 , 138 , 174175 , 177. See also government ; state
Federalist ix
feelings. See emotions
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe 22 , 31 , 42 , 84 , 140
and Fénelon problem 2630 , 3133 , 36 , 43 , 4750 , 51 , 5253 , 68
and Rousseau 4750 , 51
and Telemachus 2627 , 28 , 30
feuds 37
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb xii , 84
fiction, legal 170 , 171. See also Genossenschaft ; law , Roman
forced to be free, Rousseau on 20 , 69
forming the nation for the government, Rousseau on 21 , 23 , 7879
Frederick ii, king of Prussia xii
freedom 5657 , 62 , 6364 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 94 , 95 , 118 , 120 , 131 , 132. See also conscience ; liberty ; perfectibility
Freud, Sigmund 53
Friedrich, Carl Joachim 174176
and Alfred Weber 175
Gans, Edouard 43
Gay, Peter 13 n28 , 176
general will viii , 17 , 68 , 70 , 71 , 74 , 7677 , 79 , 84 , 112 , 113 , 119 , 139 , 151152 , 155156 , 159 , 160 , 165 , 167
Geneva 89 , 10 , 30 , 81 , 117
Genossenschaft 157 , 168 , 17073. See also Gierke ; Mohl
German idealism viii , 12 , 52. See also materialism of the wise man
Germans, and Romans 37 , 167 , 171
Gierke, Otto von 157 , 168 , 170173 , 174175 , 176
and Althusius 172173
and Roman law 170171
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 111 , 137
government x , 5 , 15 , 17 , 21 , 47 , 53 , 68 , 7273 , 76 , 113 , 135 , 138139
federal vii , 12 , 21 , 24 , 65 , 76 , 138139 , 177
of laws 49
of men 49
national 24
representative 162
and self-government 168
gradated (graduated) promotion 74 , 7679 , 8283 , 84 , 137
Grotius, Hugo 1 , 34 , 36
growth, economic 26 , 28 , 29 , 36
Hamilton, Alexander ix
Harrington, James 39 , 44
Heeren, Arnold 174 , 175
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich vii , viii , xii , xiii , 43 , 47 , 71 , 72 , 142 , 144 , 151 , 153 , 154 , 156 , 160 , 161 , 163 , 168 , 170 , 176
and civil society 154 , 156159 , 160 , 169
and Rousseau 154156
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien 47 , 57 , 117 , 120
Herder, Johann Gottfried 144 , 146149
Hirzel, Johann Caspar 30
history, end of 142 , 144
philosophy of 144 , 176
Hobbes, Thomas viii , xii , 1 , 34 , 36 , 53 , 117 , 146 , 150 , 171 , 173 , 175
and Hobbism 4950 , 146
honour, and shame 9293. See also duelling
Hont, Istvan 134
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 110
Hume, David 3 , 4 , 9 , 16 , 17 , 24 , 27 , 48 , 87 , 91 , 93 , 116 , 176
ideas, general and particular 95 , 98 , 102 , 116
identification 134135
identity, 51 , 99. See also moi commun
imagination xi , 1920 , 5960 , 63 , 64 , 86 , 9495 , 96 , 9798 , 102 , 105 , 106 , 108 , 109 , 112 , 114 , 116 , 128129 , 131 , 137 , 147 , 149. See also conscience ; language of signs ; love ; perfectibility
in libertate labor, in servitute dolor 56 , 64
independence 14 , 30 , 60 , 66 , 70 , 131 176. See also division of labour
individualism, and individuality 150 , 152 , 154 , 160 , 171
industrialism 6667
industry xi , 56 , 4041 , 54 , 5861 , 64 , 6566 , 8485 , 86 , 95 , 96 , 144146 , 149 , 153. See also agriculture ; credit ; division of labour ; luxury ; perfectibility ; trade
inequality 17 , 27 , 31 , 47 , 5152 , 54 , 84 , 134
instinct 5657 , 63 , 64 , 94 , 147
interdependence 6061 , 66 , 149 , 176. See also division of labour
interest 3 , 5 , 22 , 24 , 32 , 35 , 46 , 74 , 81 , 87 , 101 , 115 , 120121 , 124126 , 129 , 133134 , 138 , 143 , 155156 , 161 , 16465. See also Jhering
rate of 4041 , 45 , 162
Jacobitism 47
Jansenism 62 , 79 , 101
Jay, John ix
Jellinek, Georg xii , 153 , 154156 , 157159 , 166168 , 173
on Gierke 173
on Rousseau 155156 , 174
Jhering, Rudolf von xii , 157 , 159 , 163166 , 168
on rights and rules 163164
jury 40
justice 120 , 165
Kant, Immanuel vii , viii , x , xii , 1314 , 20 , 47 , 94 , 112 , 134 , 142 , 144 , 150151 , 163 , 168 , 176
and neo-Kantianism 1314. See also Cassirer
Kliyogg (the Rural Socrates) 30
Krause, Karl Friedrich Christian 158 , 161
language 51 , 88 , 95 , 14749. See also Herder
language of signs 20 , 8693 , 114 , 133 , 135
and ancient politics 87
in republican Rome, 8788 , 9192
law xiii , 2 , 17 , 113 , 115 , 135 , 152 , 157 , 159 , 163164 , 166168
and politics 168
and rights 163164
Roman 167 , 169 , 170
rule of 159 , 164 , 167168
and sovereignty 166168 , 177
Law, Edmund 9
Law, John 31 , 44 , 47 , 48
Le Mercier de la Rivière, Pierre-Paul 48
Legion of Honour 93 , 137
legislator 114
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 143 , 147
liberty 6 , 3940
negative and positive 134. See also freedom ; political economy
Lindet, Robert 28
Locke, John 1 , 101 , 114
love 19 , 51 , 99 , 100112 , 118 , 127 , 135
absolute 127
of beauty 118 , 135
comparative 127
of order 119 , 122124 , 129 , 134. See also amour-de-soi; amour-propre
luxury 27 , 36 , 37 , 115
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de 47
Machiavelli, 42
and grandezza 22
Madison James ix , 46
Maistre, Joseph de 153
majority, and minority 76
Malebranche, Nicolas 119
Malthus, Thomas Robert 5657 , 61 , 137
mandarins 45
Mandeville, Bernard 3132
manners 36
Marie-Antoinette, 3 , 4
and Rousseau 3
and cake 3
markets x , xi , 4041 , 4344 , 58 , 60 , 8283 , 145 , 149 , 177
marvellous, in life 34 , 20 , 2425 , 27 , 116
Marx, Karl Heinrich 161
materialism, of the wise man 89 , 90 , 91 , 93 , 133 , 135. See also German idealism ; language of signs ; Rousseau, Confessions
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien 83
metapolitics 149 , 153 , 154
and metaphysics 153. See also civil society
Mirabeau, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de 48 , 49 , 50 , 101 , 146
modesty 105 , 106 , 108
mœurs 36
Mohl, Robert von 155 , 161 , 168 , 170
moi 99 , 131
and moi commun viii , 74 , 76 , 110 , 113 , 160. See also self
Molinism 101
monarchy xi , 27 , 31 , 3643 , 77 , 174
and reform 2630 , 5253
money xiii , 82 , 113 , 149 , 152 , 159 , 162 , 177
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de x , 31 , 32 , 3336 , 43 , 44 , 47 , 50 , 51 , 67 , 68 , 86 , 137
and credit 4142
and English constitution 32 , 3941
and intermediate powers 36 , 3738 , 39
and Machiavellism 42
and monarchy 3643
and Rousseau 3336 , 67
and trade 3637 , 4041
prophecy by 32
morality 35 , 50 , 109 , 116 , 118 , 120 , 128 , 131 , 134 , 136. See also conscience ; moi; self ; women
motivation 35 , 50 , 86 , 89 , 114 , 136
Muralt, Beat de 122
music 1 , 88 , 91 , 109
natural rights. See rights
nature, state of 51 , 131132
needs 51 , 52
Netherlands 31
Neuchâtel 30 , 6566 , 80 , 124
Newton, Isaac
and Rousseau, compared by Kant 20
Nietzsche, Friedrich 15 , 17 , 53 , 130
noble savage 29
Novalis 110
Ogilvie, William 47
opinion. See public opinion
organism, as metaphor of political society 4 , 74 , 151152 , 158 , 173
Ovid 108109
Paine, Tom 50
painting, and music 91
Paley, William 9
party-system 46 , 47
perception 147
perfectibility xi , 6264 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 95 , 98 , 142 , 148. See also freedom
perfection 103104 , 105 , 118
personality 15 , 150 , 160161 , 164 , 171
of state, 160161 , 162. See also Genossenschaft ; Gierke ; Jellinek ; Stein
Physiocracy 44 , 45 , 4750 , 51 , 144146 , 149
pity 1819 , 99100 , 106 , 119 , 120 , 122 , 129130
Platonism, and division of labour 57
pluralism 173 , 176
Poland 23 , 7677 , 138. See also Rousseau
political economy of liberty 80 ;
of modern Europe 55 , 167
political obligation 70 , 134135
politics, ancient and modern 46 , 8788 , 109110 , 116 , 129 , 132 , 140 , 153 , 167168 , 171
Rousseau on 20 , 54 , 149150 , 173. See also federal system ; metapolitics
polyarchy xi , 50
population 54 , 55 , 61
possession 5152
price theory 54 , 59 , 144145
pride. See amour-propre
property 1 , 2 , 5152 , 61 , 80 , 114 , 162. See also possession ; taxation
prose 88
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 157 , 158
public debt 159 , 162163 , 177. See also money, Stein
public, and private 47 , 54 , 70 , 73 , 76 , 79 , 112 , 124125 , 126 , 138 , 165
public law, and private law 79 , 165 , 166 , 169. See also general will ; will of all
public opinion vii , 7 , 46 , 91 , 9293 , 102 , 135
Pufendorf, Samuel 1
Rawls, John 16
reason 88 , 131
Rechtsstaat 14 , 15 , 31 , 52 , 54 , 156 , 176
recognition theory 15
reform 2633 , 36 , 4347 , 52 , 53 , 7880 , 146. See also Physiocracy
remorse 119. See also conscience
representation, political 31 , 68. See also government
republics 41 , 4950 , 174. See also federal system ; government ; politics ; social democracy
ancient 132
bourgeois xiii
compound ix
federal ix , xi , xiii , 24
modern ix , xiii
types of ix , xiii
resentment 165. See also conscience
reserve bank 8283
revolution, Rousseau on 7 , 59 , 145 . See also Burke
right, positive 113
rights, natural 70
rights, objective and subjective 163164 , 165
rights, perfect and imperfect 70
Ritchie, David George viii , xi , xii , 150 , 151
Robespierre, Maximilien viii , 2829
Rome 32 , 76 , 87 , 145 , 167 , 168 , 170
Rousseau, and concept of civil society 154 , 156
Gierke on 173
Hegel and 154156
Jellinek on 153156
Kant and 94
on Montesquieu 3335 , 80.
scholarship on viiiix , 1317 , 5354 , 174176 See also Corsica ; division of labour ; Fall ; federal system ; general will ; Geneva ; gradated promotion ; imagination ; love ; nature ; Neuchâtel ; Poland ; politics ; sovereignty ; state ; system ; theodicy ; will of all ; women
Works by:
Confessions xiii , 3 , 12 , 20 , 86 , 8990 , 115
Considerations on the Government of Poland xiii , 6 , 7 , 11 , 18 , 23 , 50 , 55 , 7677 , 84 , 86
Discourse on Political Economy 7475 , 76 , 86 , 135 , 138 , 155
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences 23 , 13 , 5556 , 86 , 141
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 1 , 11 , 13 , 18 , 28 , 51 , 55 , 56 , 5759 , 63 , 64 , 67 , 80 , 86 , 88 , 9596 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 115 , 120 , 123 , 145 , 147
Emile 7 , 9 , 13 , 17 , 3435 , 36 , 50 , 5961 , 64 , 67 , 76 , 86 , 88 , 89 , 97 , 98 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 108 , 113 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 126 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 136
Essay on the Origin of Languages xiii , 11 , 18 , 86 , 88 , 89 , 91 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 106
Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse 17 , 30 , 50 , 86 , 90 , 9697 , 104 , 117 , 118
La morale sensitive 12 , 89
Le matérialisme du sage 12 , 89 , 133
Letter to Christophe de Beaumont vii , 18 , 122125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 133 , 135
Letter to d’Alembert 6566 , 9293 , 106 , 117
Letters from the Mountain 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 68
Lettres morales 119120 , 122 , 132
Narcissus 115 , 119 , 125 , 141
Plan of a Constitution for Corsica xiii , 12 , 21 , 23 , 50 , 7779 , 8284 , 86
Political Institutes 12
Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar 119 , 143
Pygmalion 108110
Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques 3 , 10 , 11 , 18 , 115 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 132 , 133
Social Contract 12 , 9 , 12 , 13 , 17 , 20 , 35 , 50 , 52 , 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 76 , 79 , 80 , 86 , 9192 , 112 , 151 , 152 , 155 , 165
The Levite of Ephraim 89 , 135
rules, legal 163
Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine viii
Saint-Pierre, Charles Irénée Castel, abbé de 13 , 29 , 48
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, comte de 157 , 168 , 169
Salentum 26 , 29
Salic laws 37
Say, Jean-Baptiste 29
Schiller, Friedrich 110 , 142
Schlegel, Friedrich 110
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 110111
Schlözer, August Ludwig von 153
Schmitt, Carl 175176
self 99; 109 , 131132 , 134 , 149
common viii , ix , 110
physical and moral 131
and self-approval 134
and self-interest 120121 , 164. See alsoamour-propre; interest; moi
sensibilité 127
positive and negative 127 , 128 , 130131 , 132
separation of powers 40 , 46 , 136
shame xi , 92 , 106107. See also modesty
Shklar, Judith 176
Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph 47 , 50 , 71 , 72 , 137 , 174
signs. See language of signs
slavery 4 , 6 , 150
Smith, Adam 9 , 93 , 134 , 176
social contract 5152 , 6768 , 69 , 7274 , 84 , 112113 , 114 , 150 , 173
social democracy 163
and liberalism 163 . See also Stein
socialists 157 , 158 , 169. See also Saint-Simon
society 153154 , 157158 , 160
acquisitive 160161 , 162
and individual 150 , 152 , 154. See also civil society ; individualism
sovereign 72 , 112
sleeping 139 , 140 , 17172. See also federal system ; government ; sovereignty
sovereignty x , 5 , 15 , 17 , 47 , 52 , 53 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 7273 , 113 , 138139 , 150 , 152 , 162 , 166168
absence of concept in Rome and Greece 167
in Jellinek 166168
and monarchy 174
and state 166168 , 177
Sparta 32
Spector, Céline 53
Spencer, Herbert 158
Staatenbund 23 , 138
Staël, Germaine de 110 , 143
Stanislas Leszczynski, king of Poland 5 , 6 , 64
Starobinski, Jean 16 , 53
state 135 , 150 , 152 , 155 , 161 , 166 , 168 , 171
auto-limitation of 159 , 166168
bureaucratic 162
and civil society 72 , 152155 , 157 , 158 , 160 , 166
federal 139
fiscal 81
and general will 155 , 160 , 165 , 167
personality of, 160161 , 162
sovereignty and 166167 , 177
two-sided nature of 159160 , 16668. See also federal system ; government ; Jellinek ; law ; sovereignty ; Stein
Stein, Lorenz von xii , 157 , 158 , 159163 , 168 , 176
on public debt, 162163
Steuart, Sir James 47
Strauss, Leo viii , xi , xii , 16 , 53 , 150
subject 69 , 70
subject, autonomy of 1516 , 54 , 134 , 150
subsistence goods 54 , 65
suffrage 163. See also elections
Süssmilch, Johann Peter 147
Switzerland ix , 153
system, in Rousseau’s thought 1011 , 15 , 115 , 116 , 141142 , 149 , 176
Tacitus 39
taxation 5455 , 68 , 8082 , 83 , 145 , 161
theodicy 1415 , 141144 , 146 , 149. See also causation
Tocqueville, Alexis de 17 , 24
totalitarianism, and Rousseau xii , 2021 , 54 , 152
trade 3637 , 4041 , 8283 , 115 , 153
Tuck, Richard 53
Tucker, Josiah 9
United States of America 24 , 139
universitas and societas, in Roman law 170
utility 120 , 164165 , 169
and the arts 60
and the law 165 , 169. See also imagination ; luxury
Vaughan, Charles Edwyn 152
Vauvenargues, marquis de 101
Villers, Charles de 110
virtue 21 , 29 , 35 , 36 , 45 , 53 , 63 , 77 , 82 , 90 , 103 , 104 , 115118 , 124 , 129 , 132 , 135 , 143
simulacrum of 115 , 116 , 119 , 125 , 135
volonté de tous 151. See also will of all
volonté générale viii , ix , 151. See also general will
Voltaire, François Arouet de 10 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 57 , 61
war 9
Weber, Alfred 175
Weber, Max 4 , 17 , 175 , 176
will, and freedom 62 , 132. See also general will ; sovereignty
will of all viii , 24 , 71 , 75 , 113 , 151152 , 155156 , 159 , 167
women 33 , 37 , 103 , 105108 , 109111 , 136137
words, spoken and written 88
work, and freedom 56 , 64
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