Browsing by Author "Liu, Antong"
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Taming Amour-Propre: A Study of Book IV of Rousseau's Emile
Liu, Antong (2014)Amour-propre is a crucial concept of Rousseau's philosophy. Although recent studies have confirmed its moral ambiguity, they paid insufficient attention to Rousseau's account of amour-propre in his Emile and thus failed ... -
The Modernization of Honor in Eighteenth-Century Political Theory
Liu, Antong (2019)In this dissertation, I investigate the efforts in eighteenth-century political theory to modernize the sense of honor. Contrary to the belief that influential thinkers of this century—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, ... -
The Modernization of Honor in Eighteenth-Century Political Theory
Liu, Antong (2019)In this dissertation, I investigate the efforts in eighteenth-century political theory to modernize the sense of honor. Contrary to the belief that influential thinkers of this century—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, ...