Sartrean Freedom and Responsibility in Rousseau’s Emile

Philippine Social Science Journal

Beljun P. Enaya¹  Al Franjon Villaroya¹ 

[1] Visayas State University, Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines;

关键词: jean-paul sartre;    freedom;    responsibility;    jean-jacques rousseau;    philosophy of education;   

DOI  :  10.52006/main.v4i1.320

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist interpretation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of education, or Emile. It aims to show the Sartrean concept of freedom and responsibility in understanding education, as shown in Emile and his tutor's narrative. It utilizes Sartre’s significant works, such as Being and Nothingness, and Existentialism is Humanism, in explicating the Sartrean concept in Rousseau's book, Emile. Existentialist hermeneutics helps the paper to re-interpret the text of Emile. It argues that Rousseau's philosophy of education, as demonstrated by Emile and his tutor, implicitly manifests absolute freedom and responsibility in the learning process. Thus, this paper provides a Sartrean existentialist perspective of understanding Rosseau's Emile.

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