Tapsearch Com EditorNaturalism - What's love got to do with it
August 24th 2009 22:19
Ray Tapajna Chronicles
Jean Jacques Rousseau introduces Naturalism to
the world
This is part of our Modern Hersies series based on notes from Father
McQuaid SJ JCU class notes.
What does love have to do with it
" God makes all things good: man meddles with them and they become evil. He forces one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place, and naturalconditions. He mutilates his dog, his horse , his slave. HE destroys and defaces things; he loves what is deformed and montrous; he will have
nothing as nature made it, not even man himself, who must learn his paces like a saddle hors and be shaped to his master's taste like trees in a garden."
And so begins, Rousseau famous book "Emilie, or Education," with Rousseau calling for a return to nature. Man is by nature innocent and good; he possesses an impulse to preserve himself and to develop his capacities, but he is alos prompted by smypathy for others and inspired by religious feelings, gratitude and reverence.
Morality and religion are not matters of reasoning but of natural feeling. Rousseau emphasizes the importance of sentiments a the element of our mental life and denies that development of reason brings with it the perfection of man Men are equal my nature; society has made them unequal. Civilization, with its culture has corrupted our natural
inclinantions, producing the slavish and the lordly vices, servility, envy, hatred and has made life aartificial adn mechanical.
( With Rousseau words effecting many, we can see how it resembles modern
socialistic and liberal theories looking for the perfection of man in the improvement of society. )
Resistance to impulse is wrong, because impulses aare naturally good. Naturalism seeks to put man in a place where the whole man can be inline with natural tendencies. The scholar is ill-educated and will never be at peace with himself. There is no supernatural order. There is no supernatural destiny. The only object of life is to attain
a certain degree f natural happiness.
It's all about feelings and doing what comes naturally- ( and don't forget, Naturalism has evolved into our classrooms - John Dewey carried it into the class room saying children are naturally good and education has to guided by this process. )
Feeling is the real source for all religous knowlege. I feel it and it is that feeling which speaks to me more forcibly than the reason which disputes it. There is no object code of morals to be followed, no obligatory or fixed practice to be observed. God is there if you like
to have Him around but that is about it. Besides what's love have to do with it. ( See next post on Naturalism )
Jean Jacques Rousseau introduces Naturalism to
the world
This is part of our Modern Hersies series based on notes from Father
McQuaid SJ JCU class notes.
What does love have to do with it
" God makes all things good: man meddles with them and they become evil. He forces one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place, and naturalconditions. He mutilates his dog, his horse , his slave. HE destroys and defaces things; he loves what is deformed and montrous; he will have
nothing as nature made it, not even man himself, who must learn his paces like a saddle hors and be shaped to his master's taste like trees in a garden."
And so begins, Rousseau famous book "Emilie, or Education," with Rousseau calling for a return to nature. Man is by nature innocent and good; he possesses an impulse to preserve himself and to develop his capacities, but he is alos prompted by smypathy for others and inspired by religious feelings, gratitude and reverence.
Morality and religion are not matters of reasoning but of natural feeling. Rousseau emphasizes the importance of sentiments a the element of our mental life and denies that development of reason brings with it the perfection of man Men are equal my nature; society has made them unequal. Civilization, with its culture has corrupted our natural
inclinantions, producing the slavish and the lordly vices, servility, envy, hatred and has made life aartificial adn mechanical.
( With Rousseau words effecting many, we can see how it resembles modern
socialistic and liberal theories looking for the perfection of man in the improvement of society. )
Resistance to impulse is wrong, because impulses aare naturally good. Naturalism seeks to put man in a place where the whole man can be inline with natural tendencies. The scholar is ill-educated and will never be at peace with himself. There is no supernatural order. There is no supernatural destiny. The only object of life is to attain
a certain degree f natural happiness.
It's all about feelings and doing what comes naturally- ( and don't forget, Naturalism has evolved into our classrooms - John Dewey carried it into the class room saying children are naturally good and education has to guided by this process. )
Feeling is the real source for all religous knowlege. I feel it and it is that feeling which speaks to me more forcibly than the reason which disputes it. There is no object code of morals to be followed, no obligatory or fixed practice to be observed. God is there if you like
to have Him around but that is about it. Besides what's love have to do with it. ( See next post on Naturalism )
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