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Locke and Rousseau - Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor (Paperback)
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Locke and Rousseau - Two Enlightenment Responses to Honor (Paperback)
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Laurie Johnson investigates two Enlightenment-era reactions to
honor in Locke and Rousseau. She provides an in-depth analysis of
how political philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
react differently to the place and importance of honor in society.
Locke continues the trend of rejecting honor as a means of
achieving order and justice in society, preferring instead the
modern motivation of rational self-interest. Johnson explores the
possibility of an honor code that is compatible with Lockean
liberalism, but also points out the problems inherent in such a
project. She then turns to Rousseau, whose reaction to
Enlightenment ideas reveals our own "divided mood." Rousseau's
worries and ambivalence about honor are our worries and
ambivalence, and his failed attempt to revise honor in a way that
works within the modern system highlights how difficult any project
to resurrect the value of honor will be. This book will interest
anyone who wonders what happened to honor in our world today,
including students of communitarianism. Johnson warns us that we
cannot simply look to the past, to the ideals of Locke or other
Enlightenment thinkers such as the American founders, for answers
to our current family, social, and economic problems, because our
problems at least partly stem from Enlightenment liberal thought.
Instead we must fully recognize this connection before we can start
to formulate a definition of honor that can work for us today.
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