The Source of Evil in Rousseau's Confessions: A Reply to Augustine's Confessions
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This article argues that Rousseau’s account of the source of evil in his Confessions was in fact a reply to Augustine’s Confessions. By taking Confessions as the title of his autobiography, it believes, Rousseau wanted his readers to relate his book to Augustine’s. There are thematic and structural similarities in two Confessions. And the main themes of both Confessions are problem of evil and human salvation. This article, therefore, reads very closely both Confessions together in this comparative perspective, especially some key accounts of the source of evil in two Confessions. It is only this detailed exegetical consideration of both texts in comparison that leads us to clear and full understanding that Rousseau intended his secular account of the problem of evil to be a response to Augustine’s account, especially to Augustine’s doctrine of original sin. Rousseau turned around the whole discussion of the source of evil from an ontological and theological discourse to a philosophical and social discourse, so as to pave the way to an ethics that is based upon human autonomy instead of theistic transcendence. Rousseau’s secular account of problem of evil, therefore, took the human salvation away from God, and attributed it to the human heart itself.
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This article argues that Rousseau’s account of the source of evil in his Confessions was in fact a reply to Augustine’s Confessions. By taking Confessions as the title of his autobiography, it believes, Rousseau wanted his readers to relate his book to Augustine’s. There are thematic and structural similarities in two Confessions. And the main themes of both Confessions are problem of evil and human salvation. This article, therefore, reads very closely both Confessions together in this comparative perspective, especially some key accounts of the source of evil in two Confessions. It is only this detailed exegetical consideration of both texts in comparison that leads us to clear and full understanding that Rousseau intended his secular account of the problem of evil to be a response to Augustine’s account, especially to Augustine’s doctrine of original sin. Rousseau turned around the whole discussion of the source of evil from an ontological and theological discourse to a philosophical and social discourse, so as to pave the way to an ethics that is based upon human autonomy instead of theistic transcendence. Rousseau’s secular account of problem of evil, therefore, took the human salvation away from God, and attributed it to the human heart itself.
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