Looking to both Rousseau and Kant’s writings, please answer the following: What
Looking to both Rousseau and Kant’s writings, please answer the following: What makes a “human” in these eighteenth century writings? Is there a single conception? A unifuying conception? If so, what is it? If not, then why not?
As per usual, please make sure to integrate lecture and reading material into your response! (1. It makes your response more credible to have evidence backing it up, and 2. It’s good practice for the CA)! Additionally, and very importantly, please answer ALL parts of the prompt! I’m looking forward to reading your responses!
Primary Source ReadingsJean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will
Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Anthropology , Allen W. Wood and Robert B. Louden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 315-321.
Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment? ” (1784)
Secondary Source ReadingsImmanuel Kant, Lectures on Anthropology , Allen W. Wood and Robert B. Louden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 1-10.