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Conditio Humana and Virtuous Decision-Making: Shallows of Recognition by Rousseau and Honneth
Critically opposing Honneth’s interpretation, this essay has a double purpose: on the one hand, to show that, as Honneth rightly considers Rousseau a theorist of recognition, he should also regard him as a pioneer of the concept of social freedom; and, on the other hand, to justify that the profound intertwining present in the thought of the Genevan philosopher between the theory of recognition and the education of self-love can only be clarified on the basis of a theory of the virtuous education of the will.