Warner, John M. <br/><br/>
Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations 

 - University Park  Penn State University Press  2018 
 - 1 electronic resource (270 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Among Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations was the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. A person with divided loyalties (i.e., to both himself and his cohorts) was, in Rousseau’s thinking, a divided person. According to John Warner’s Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations, not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, he believed it was fundamentally unsolvable: social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. Warner traces his argument through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships—sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association. Warner concludes that none of these, whether examined individually or together, provides a satisfactory resolution to the problem of human dividedness located at the center of Rousseau’s thinking. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>OAPEN_605032 9780271074641 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.26530/OAPEN_605032  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social & political philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Political Science philosophy politics politics and social views interpersonal relations Amour-propre Emile or On Education Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Hobbes