Bekämpfung—Organisation—Behandlungserfolge (Statistik 2)

Modes of Reciprocity in Rousseau’s Thinking

“…As Fetscher has showed, Rousseau was in Social Contract not a revolutionary or reformer "raising a new mission to society, a new future to humanity" but a conservative 36 . The diametrically contrary thesis by Ernst Cassirer in his classical article cannot therefore be maintained 37 . But even more Rousseau was, as again Fetscher pointed out, "a thinker between the ages, as anyone ever was" 38 and therefore a thinker "in two minds". As a possible illustration of this, let us take a look at the surviving manuscript of Social Contract.…”