Morality Substantiation Models (Intellectual Projects of La Rochefoucauld, Locke, Rousseau, de Sade)
DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2002.05.13
Kalmykov K.N. Morality Substantiation Models (Intellectual Projects of La Rochefoucauld, Locke, Rousseau, de Sade) . – Polis. Political Studies. 2002. No. 5. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2002.05.13
With intellectual projects of some thinkers of the early Modernity period used as material investigated, the article presents an attempt to retrace the processes of substantiation of "new morality" following either from the laws of society (La Rochefoucauld, Locke), or from the laws of nature (Rousseau, de Sade). Whereas the former of these two cases presumes aloofness from the problem of truth, in the latter case the said problem is transferred to the sphere of reasoning about man being predetermined by nature. In the epoch in question, the place of God in the discourse about morality is retained, but a number of representatives of "new morality" resorted to other categories for its legitimization.
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