Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET July 2016 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Assertion (A): For Rousseau, a thinking man is a depraved animal.
Reason (R): Common emotions give value to life.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A — Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion, since for Rousseau it is natural feeling, not cold reflection, that gives life its value.
Explanation
★Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion, since for Rousseau it is natural feeling, not cold reflection, that gives life its value.
★Rousseau wrote that the man who reflects is a depraved animal, distrusting excessive rationality.
★He believed that reason, divorced from feeling, breeds vanity, calculation, and moral corruption.
★Natural sentiments such as pity and self-love are, for him, the true sources of virtue and meaning.
★Civilisation's overdevelopment of reason therefore alienates man from his naturally good self.
★This celebration of emotion over reason is the romantic core of his thought.
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