4th Global Justice Workshop: "Rousseau and the Republic"

Global Justice Lecture Series (IV)

Topic: Rousseau and the Republic

Speaker: Philip Pettit (Professor, Princeton University)

Moderator: Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)

Time: Mar. 16, 10:00 am

Venue: R106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

Abstract: Like all figures in the republican tradition that dates from classical Rome, Rousseau upholds the value of non-domination or, as he prefers to put it, non-dependence. But his interpretation of the tradition is heavily influenced by the absolutist tradition of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. This influence warped the ideal of the republic and generated a novel version of republican thought that still has a presence today.