Wolność w ujęciu Jana-Jakuba Rousseau : pomiędzy starożytnymi a nowożytnymi

Bibliogr. s. 60-61. Zeszyt specjalny czasopisma zaw. przekłady wybranych tekstów opublikowanych w czasopiśmie w roku 2016. Tekst jest anglojęzyczną wersją artykułu pt. "Wolność w ujęciu Jana-Jakuba Rousseau: pomiędzy starożytnymi a nowożytnymi", “Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa” 2016, t. 9, z. 2, s. 211-232. DOI 10.4467/20844131KS.16.010.5330 zob. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/34011

Rousseau's philosophy can be situated as a continuum between the ancient and the modern traditions; we argue that it does not fully belong to either and this is particularly evident in his discussion of liberty. Our point of departure is a view that in order to grasp peculiarity of Rousseaus' understanding of liberty we need to go beyond the liberal tradition and its scheme of thinking about freedom as well as beyond the intuitive understanding of liberty. The second part of the article presents an analysis of the four different meanings of liberty that we find in Rousseau's theory: natural, social, moral and civil. The most important for political philosophy is his discussion of the shift from the natural to social and civil liberty and the insistence that true freedom cannot be totally separated from morality. Finally, we discuss some of the contemporary interpretations of Rousseau's political thought which often emphasize one of the different meanings of liberty that we find in his writings.