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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2012  
         
  Article:   SO LITTLE DIFFERENCE: AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THE ONTOLOGICAL MEANING OF THE “NATURAL STATE” IN THE SECOND TREATISE / « SI PEU DE DIFFERENCE » ZONES D’OMBRE AUTOUR D’UNE HYPOTHÈSE.

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  Abstract:   So Little Difference: An Attempt to Understand the Ontological Meaning of the “Natural State” in the Second Treatise. With the concept of “state of nature” Rousseau builds up a hypothetical model of a phenomenon and then he draws its consequences for the present. The “hypothetical and conditional reasoning” does not want to enlighten the origin of things but to show its nature and in the same time to reproduce that sort of speech situation which allows to “ judge” the status of the present time.

Keywords: Rousseau, second Treatise, the natural state, methodological fiction, historical perspective, compassion, emotive language
 
         
     
         
         
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