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Émile: Education, Society and Human Nature

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2013, (28), pp.29~55
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Bongmann Ko 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought that Émile ou de l’éducation is the greatest one in his entire works. Why he thought so ? He said about that by two reasons. At first, He thought that the principle which human is naturally good is well and perfectly presented in Émile ou de l’éducation. Secondly, he also thought that the work presented the method to recover the lost ‘Natural Goodness’ that was lost in the social life of human being. So, what is the human being or the original nature of human ? What makes human ? What is human institution ? What make human harmonize with society ? Rousseau devoted himself to the question or ‘The Human Condition’ in Émile ou de l’éducation. The beginning education of Émile un élève imaginaire or an imaginary disciple made by Rousseau-or the question of entire education can compress only one inquiry. That is, “what kind of education make Émile remain as a freeman of liberality and equality, not make him corrupted by the society that he lives in inevitably.” In this paper, we will look around the principles which was regarded as important ones by Rousseau, and examine the Rousseau’s methods that he presented as actual and practical ones. That makes us understand the rousseau’s principle. That is, he wanted to recover the natural goodness in original human being by the method of education in human society. If that try will success, we can understand more easy his agony-“how we can make human good and happy.”

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