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Society is the natural mode of existence of the human collectivity, independent of any contract. This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers, past and present, of all times and all countries -- statesmen, diplomats, bureaucrats, and warriors -- if judged from the standpoint of simple morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over earned their sentence to hard labour or to the gallows. But this remainder may be a form of security; it is never liberty. In a pure democracy of equals -- all of whom are, however, considered incapable of self-restraint on behalf of the common welfare, their liberty tending naturally toward evil -- who would be the true guardian and administrator of the laws, the defender of justice and of public order against everyone's evil passions? It exists as a lifelong potential capacity to rise to the awareness of his humanity, even if there should be little possibility for a radical change in the social conditions which have made him what he is. Rousseau, lo stato di natura e il patto sociale Il "Contratto sociale" è uno dei capolavori della filosofia illuminista, fonte di ispirazione per due secoli, dal quale emerge la fiducia proverbiale del filosofo per la natura umana. castro rousseau marx, illuminismo teoria politica, stato naturale patto sociale, uguaglianza disuguaglianza origini, Questo sito contribuisce alla audience di, Il "Contratto sociale" è uno dei capolavori della filosofia illuminista, fonte di ispirazione per due secoli, dal quale emerge la fiducia proverbiale del filosofo per la natura umana, Discorso sull’origine e i fondamenti della diseguaglianza tra gli uomini.        [Contact Us]        Please login to your account first; Need help? In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant. Unlike society, it does not precede the awakening of reason in men. The State, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. And since it is now proven that no state could exist without committing crimes, or at least without contemplating and planning them, even when its impotence should prevent it from perpetrating crimes, we today conclude in favour of the absolute need of destroying the states. Would the people necessarily accept these in preference to ambitious, smooth-tongued, clever schemers? Lo stato terroristico della Volontà Generale nel pensiero politico di Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Such a conclusion would not be right at all. La filosofia di Rousseau è basata sulla contrapposizione tra natura, con caratteristiche positive, e società, con quelle negative. (art.7) Nothing is as dangerous for man's personal morality as the habit of commanding. Lo stato di natura e la nascita della società: il Discorso sulla diseguaglianza Prefazione e prima parte. You can write a book review and share your experiences. Lo Stato diventa nel pensiero di Rousseau la via di uscita politica per porre rimedio ai due grandi male sociali: quello di incontrare altri uomini in società e quello della disuguaglianza creata dalla proprietà privata. In the State we are now examining, the good, as we have seen, commences only with the conclusion of the social contract and, consequently, is merely the product and very content of this contract. Publisher: BUR. M , Nicola, Lo Stato moderno (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997), pp. This explains why, since the birth of the State, the world of politics has always been and continues to be the stage for unlimited rascality and brigandage, brigandage and rascality which, by the way, are held in high esteem, since they are sanctified by patriotism, by the transcendent morality and the supreme interest of the State. Il Contratto sociale di Jean-Jacques Rousseau rappresenta un testo essenziale per gli studi di etica sociale e filosofia politica; scritto nel 1762, l’opera è un baluardo della cultura moderna, e della moderna scienza politica. We are therefore right in affirming that, from the viewpoint of the State, the good is born not of liberty but rather of the negation of liberty. According to the theory of the social contract primitive men enjoying absolute liberty only in isolation are antisocial by nature. What do we really see in all states past and present, even those endowed with the most democratic institutions, such as the United States of North America and Switzerland? Lo Stato dev'essere subordinato alla società, il legislatore deve conformarsi alla volontà del popolo. Whether the State bear the name of a monarchy or of a republic, crime will always be necessary for its preservation and its triumph. The State itself, by this reasoning, is not the product of liberty; it is, on the contrary, the product of the voluntary sacrifice and negation of liberty. For the State founded upon divine right and through the intervention of any God whatever, the answer is simple enough; the men to exercise such power would be the priests primarily, and secondarily the temporal authorities consecrated by the priests. The good was determined by success, failure was the only evil, and justice was merely the consecration of the fait accompli, no matter how horrible, how cruel or infamous, exactly as things are now in the political morality which prevails in Europe today. Send-to-Kindle or Email . It must devour lest it be devoured, conquer lest it be conquered, enslave lest it be enslaved, since two powers, similar and yet alien to each other, could not coexist without mutual destruction. Thus, to offend, to oppress, to despoil, to plunder, to assassinate or enslave one's fellowman is ordinarily regarded as a crime. That is for theology to explain. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labour. Natural men, completely free from the sense of right but exposed, in fact, to all the dangers which threaten their security at every moment, in order to assure and safeguard this security, sacrifice, or renounce more or less of their own liberty, and, to the extent that they have sacrificed liberty for security and have thus become citizens, they become the slaves of the State. Coming from the mass of the people, where all are supposedly equal, they do not yet constitute a separate class, but a group of men privileged only by nature and for that very reason singled out for election by the people. We claim it cannot, a claim that is easy enough to prove. Take the most intelligent ape, with the finest disposition; though you place him in the best, most humane environment, you will never make a man of him. In the history of every country, the epochs that boast a sizeable group of eminent men are exceptional, and renowned through the centuries. Had our first parents obeyed it, the entire human race would have remained plunged in the most humiliating slavery. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rodolfo Mondolfo (traduzione) Categories: Other Social Sciences\\Philosophy: Critical Thinking. It is; consequently, nothing but the greatest satisfaction given to the collective egotism of a special and restricted association, which, being founded upon the partial sacrifice of the individual egotism of each of its members, rejects from its midst, as strangers and natural enemies, the immense majority of the human species, whether or not it may be organised into analogous organisation. I shall, if necessary, take the strongest measures against them, even going so far as to kill him if I have no other way of defending against him my life, my right, and whatever I hold precious and worthy. According to this principle, the good and the just commence only with the contract; they are, in fact, nothing but the very contents and the purpose of the contract; that is, the common interest and the public right of all the individuals who have formed the contract among themselves, with the exclusion of all those who remain outside the contract. 21:51. Il problema è dunque politico, e non antropologico. This article aims at exploring the relevance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theory of inequality for interpreting today’s world. Liberty is indivisible; one cannot curtail a part of it without killing all of it. Per fare questo, però, ogni membro ha dovuto sacrificare una porzione di quelle libertà naturali che caratterizzavano la sua esistenza, per vedersele riconsegnate in altra forma, spesso un forma “invertita”, ovvero come limiti e divieti. Lo stato deve invece essere non confessionale, ovvero laico, anche perché un'eventuale imposizione di questo tipo sarebbe controproducente, provocando lotte religiose destinate a gravi conseguenze anche politiche. Slavery, therefore, is the necessary consequence of the very existence of the State. But, one might say, could the State, the democratic State, based upon the free suffrage of all its citizens, be the negation of their liberty? Is it not remarkable to find so close a correspondence between theology, that science of the Church, and politics, that science of the State; to find this concurrence of two orders of ideas and of realities, outwardly so opposed, nevertheless holding the same conviction: that human liberty must be destroyed if men are to be moral, if they are to be transformed into saints (for the Church) or into virtuous citizens (for the State)? The democratic regime also lifts the masses up gradually to participation in public life--something the monarchy never does. He taught history of political thought at the University of Turin.He has been credited as "an excellent editor and lucky finder of texts" which were particularly influential in the study of Tommaso Campanella. TORNIAMO A ROUSSEAU. Slavery may change its form or its name -- its essence remains the same. If it does show itself generous and humane toward them, it is never through a sense of duty, for it has no duties except to itself in the first place, and then to those of its members who have freely formed it, who freely continue to constitute it or even, as always happens in the long run, those who have become its subjects. Once the conditions of the contract have been accepted, it remains only to put them into effect. “Lo stato fittizio in cui riuscivo a mettermi mi ha fatto dimenticare il mio stato reale di cui ero così scontento.” Rousseau “L'intera esistenza è sogno, caratterizzata quindi da illusorietà, fugacità del tempo, vanità delle cose terrene.” Calderón de la Barça 11. Nello sforzo di esser totalmente ugualitaria, la dittatura giacobina verserà fiumi di sangue. Their disobedience has emancipated and saved us. Can this equality be maintained for any length of time?        [About Us]        The people are sovereign in law, but not in fact; since they are necessarily occupied with their daily labour which leaves them no leisure, and since they are, if not totally ignorant, at least quite inferior in education to the propertied middle class, they are constrained to leave their alleged sovereignty in the hands of the middle class. But if this man is stupid, wicked, or contemptible, can I respect him? As we are discussing the theory of the State founded upon the free contract, we must postpone discussion of those states founded on the dual authority of religion and force and, for the moment, confine our attention to authority based upon a superior intelligence, which is, as we know, always represented by minorities. The only advantage they derive from this situation, in Switzerland as well as in the United States of North America, is that the ambitious minorities, the seekers of political power, cannot attain power except by wooing the people, by pandering to their fleeting passions, which at times can be quite evil, and, in most cases, by deceiving them. There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state.". By this reasoning, human liberty produces not good but evil; man is by nature evil. In realtà, è chiaro che quello di Rousseau è una specie di esperimento mentale, che ipotizza un passato mitico funzionale alla sua argomentazione, perciò non si tratta di sostenere o meno l’effetiiva esistenza storica di questa dimensione originaria dell’uomo naturale. In this great crowd of men, among whom I hardly find any who are my equals, I alone am capable of administering public affairs. 4 . It is also the story of Adam and Eve's fall. But this condition cannot be easily or always fulfilled. But in what manner would such men seize power? Articolo d'archivio . Contro lo stato di guerra generalizzato, dovuto alla degenerazione attuale dello stato civile, gli uomini scelgono allora di riunirsi in una nuova istituzione politica, che al contrario della precedente difenda la persona ed i suoi beni. From this point of view, which, incidentally, with very few exceptions, has been that of the statesmen, the strong men of all times and of all countries from this point of view, I say, whatever conduces to the preservation, the grandeur and the power of the State, no matter how sacrilegious or morally revolting it may seem, that is the good. Per Rousseau, l’allontanamento da tale condizione ha prodotto una contaminazione dell’animo umano, una sorta di fuoriuscita da un paradiso che ha condotto a un progressivo imbarbarimento, nel quale l’uomo ha finito per cedere al conflitto col suo simile e allo stato di perpetua insoddisfazione, «L’uomo è nato libero, ma ovunque è in catene». what is evil? Such a people would not drag out a meaningless existence, giving free rein for all its instincts; out of its life, justice and public order would rise spontaneously and naturally. That is how power and the habit of commanding become a source of aberration, both intellectual and moral, even for the most intelligent and most virtuous of men. E’ dinanzi a questa prima “ingiustizia” che gli uomini decidono di aggregarsi e costituire un ordine civile e politico, per difendersi dall’arroganza e dalla forza del più forte. Theirs, in the language of mythology, was the first act of human liberty. Thus the State, like the Church, starts out with this fundamental supposition, that men are basically evil, and that, if delivered up to their natural liberty, they would tear each other apart and offer the spectacle of the most terrifying anarchy, where the stronger would exploit and slaughter the weaker -- quite the contrary of what goes on in our model states today, needless to say!

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