tode_ti ([info]tode_ti) rakstīja,
@ 2017-12-19 16:23:00

Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
"The character and life of Rousseau provide ample material for the psychologist. [..] though he was capable of deep affection and attachment, he was too sensitive, suspicious and intolerant to maintain constant friendships. A man much given to self-analysis, he often failed to understand either himself or others. A philosopher, he yet possessed a highly emotional temperament, and he drew attention to the tension between emotion and thought, heart and mind, which oppressed him. Romantic, emotional, possessing a genuine religious feeling yet self-centered and mentally unbalanced, it is in no way surprising that Rousseau broke with les philosopes. D'Holbach warned Hume that he was contemplating warming a viper in his bosom. And Hume later referred to Rousseau as 'the most singular of human beings', though he afterwards acutely remarked that the latter had only felt during the whole course of his life and that in him sensibility had risen to an unexampled pitch. But all this, of course, in no way affects Rousseau's importance in the history of philosophy."


(Ierakstīt jaunu komentāru)

Neesi iežurnalējies. Iežurnalēties?