Zeal without Fanaticism

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Religion of the Citizen

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10431908
AutoresAlyssa Cortes (autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen82
Número2
Páginas199-224
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670520000170
OpenAlexW3020274506
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas13

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is well known for his love of the ancients. His use of examples from Sparta and republican Rome emphasized what he found lacking in modern times. This article attempts to establish how Rousseau's views on the ancients are related to his religious-political thought, particularly as it relates to his description of citizen religion in the last chapter of the Social Contract . While Rousseau admired many aspects of citizen religion, he rejects it for two reasons: reasons of humanity in the Geneva Manuscript and reasons of self-interest in the Social Contract . This article attempts to understand how the two can be reconciled through the view of citizen religion's contribution to patriotism and fanaticism

Epistemology · Fanaticism · General Will · Humanity · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Social contract · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought