Prior to Prejudice: the Cultivation of Conscience as a Guide to Political Order in Rousseau

• In Event: Problems of Knowledge and Self-knowledge in Rousseau

Brief Overview

This essay examines Rousseau’s understanding of conscience to reveal both the possibility of cultivating this innate principle as a guide for social relations and, paradoxically, the limitations of using it as foundation for political order.

Author

• Elliot Thomas Montagano, University of North Texas