| Titre | La sauvageonne et la philosophie du droit naturel au XVIIIe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Christine Fauré | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 91-92, 1er et 2e trimestre 1989 Le rapport à la nature | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Le rapport à la Nature |
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| Page | 149-156 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Christine Fauré, The Wild Woman and Natural Law Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century
The discovery of a young, wild girl in France was an event which, twenty years after her capture, inspired an account bearing similarities to popular tales. This account, contemporary to the publication of Rousseau's Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité, aroused much interest at the time. Did the existence of wild men and women prove the claim that a « state of nature » exists ? Rousseau did not go that far, but his point of view in this area remained problematic and paradoxical. The poet Louis Racine and Voltaire, on the contrary, incorporated the event into their philosophical speculations in exactly this way. However, the reality of the event lies in the formulation of a scientific and experimental discourse about the limits of the human, and not in the field of natural law. According to Rousseau and Condorcet, the wild woman, as opposed to the wild man, cannot be seen as a precursor of the social and political environment. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1989_num_91_1_2395 |
