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A 5 page research paper/essay that reports on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 text Emile or On Education. This examination of Emile specifically looks at four themes that Rousseau develops in the first three sections of this work. No additional sources cited.
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which presumably Rousseau will apply to the instruction of his pupil, a young boy name Emile. Rousseau explains how his concept of education will allow the boy to develop naturally
and in accordance with his innate nature. Rousseaus educational vision proposed that from ages 5 to 12, a boy should be encouraged to develop his senses, living in the world
of nature. Academic and scholastic training would begin approximately at age 13, but even then Rousseau felt that instruction should be sensitive to the childs inclinations. The following examination of
Emile specifically looks at four themes that Rousseau develops in the first three sections of this work. The dangers of amour-propre In Book I, Rousseau opens with the
argument that the ultimate aim of education should be to fine and cultivate human beings natural proclivities. By this, Rousseau is not suggesting that we should all return to nature,
with no cultivation of the rational faculty. Rather, he presents the idea that someone who has received a positive education will be able to engage in society and relate to
others in ways that are natural rather than artificial. He refines this meaning further by differentiating between two forms of self-love, which he refers to as amour de soi and
amour-propre. The first category, amour de soi, is self-love that does not derive from others. Rousseau asserts that it is part of human nature to have self-love. He writes that
"Natural man is everything for himself. He is a numerical unit, the absolute whole, accountable only to himself or to his own kind" (Rousseau para. 24, Bk. I). Amour-propre,
on the other hand, Rousseau argues is artificial and therefore unnatural, the negative consequence of the socialization process. He associates amour-propre with excessive pride and the "wickedness of man" (Rousseau
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