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Revista latinoamericana de filosofía
On-line version ISSN 1852-7353
Abstract
RENDON, CARLOS EMEL. "Living in the Others": Rousseau and Recognition as Estrangement. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2019, vol.45, n.1, pp.1-20. ISSN 1852-7353.
This paper offers a reconstruction of Rousseaus moral, cultural and social criticism of the human desire for social valuation. The thesis advanced is that, according to Rousseau, such desire emerges from the feeling of self-love, which he regarded as unfounded and morally reproa-chable, as it results from a false estimation of oneself and others. The paper is focused on the reasons that lead Rousseau to consider the desire for public esteem or social recognition as one that hampers the possibility of enjoying an autonomous life, by enslaving human persons to the opinion of their fellows. From this perspective, the paper aims to show the negative value that the search for recognition involves for Rousseau and to examine his attempts to rethink the sense of interpersonal relations.
Keywords : recognition, self-love, opinion, estrangement, autonomy.