Calibrating Western Philosophy for India by Raghuramaraju A.;

Author:Raghuramaraju, A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 This chapter was previously published as “Two forms of the word, the spoken and written: Derrida, pre-Platonic writing West and speaking India,” in eSocialSciences, IKF (IRIS Knowledge Foundation) Mumbai, March 2017.

2 Rousseau uses the same argument in his The Social Contract where he first postulated a state of nature that is desirable; having postulated this, he then goes on to show how it is no more possible to retain this state, and in the conclusion, he comforts the reader by saying that leaving the state of nature where there is only a natural liberty is substantially compensated in the contracted civil society, by civil liberty. Let us discuss this. For Rousseau, though the ‘noble savage’ in the state of nature is still desirable, and perhaps there is no need to leave the state of nature as it is a desirable state. He says: To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man’s nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

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