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  title info:
    title: Rousseau's God
    sub title: theology, religion, and the natural goodness of man
  name:
    name part: Scott, John T.
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Rousseau's God offers a comprehensive interpretation of Rousseau's theological and religious writings, both in themselves and in relation to his philosophy of the natural goodness of man. John T. Scott argues that there is a complicated relationship between Rousseau's philosophy, on the one hand, and his theological and religious thought. This relationship revolves around two oppositions, first, between the attributes and psychological needs of natural man and social or moral man, second, between the criteria of truth and utility for evaluating theological and religious doctrines. In short, because the justification of nature through the natural goodness of man does not suffice for developed humans, Rousseau offers theological and religious doctrines which are less true than useful, psychologically, morally or politically.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Truth and utility -- The theodicy of the Discourse on inequality -- Pride and providence in the Letter to Voltaire -- Psychic unity and disunity and the need for religion -- Introduction to the "Profession of faith" -- The theological teaching of the "Profession of faith" -- The critique - and revival - of religion in the "Profession of faith" -- On civil religion -- Conclusion.
  note: John T. Scott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
      name part: 1712-1778
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Theology
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Philosophical anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and religion
  classification: B2138.R4 S46 2023
  classification: 220.6
  identifier: 9780226825489
  identifier: 0226825485
  identifier: 9780226825502
  identifier: 0226825507
  identifier: 9780226825496
  identifier: 2022035681
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220727
    record change date: 20230519193404.8
    record identifier: in00004719823