Dimensão formativa do gosto em Rousseau: versão moderna da instructio senequiana

Abstract

In the research that gave rise to this work we aimed to investigate the understanding of human formation as the care of the self, in Letters to Lucilius from Seneca and in Emilefrom Rousseau, through a bibliographical study with strong dialectic-hermeneutical inspiration. Therefore, at first we treat about the instructio notion at Seneca’s text, and then the taste at Emile from Rousseau. That requires us a reconstruction, in Seneca, the comprehension of stultitia as a condition of human formation, considering ascesis and parrhesiastes relationship as an exercise to face stultitiaand as instructio’sstrengthening. Based on this reconstruction, we take, on the sequence, a historical jump to 18th century, trying to understand how these notions of Seneca’s stoicism are incorporated by Rousseau in his pedagogical-political theory. Our investigation dedicates to this theme three of four chapters, in which we seek to retake, in first place, the perfectibility concept as a possibility to human formation. Then we seek to problematize Rousseau’s moral formation based on human’s formation notion as care of the self, which express itself in the Swiss philosopher thought, through the taste. This course aims to answer the central problem of this thesis: to what extent the taste in the context of Rousseau’s thought can be understood as a modern version of Seneca’s instructio?The conclusion we got is that Rousseau’s taste comprehension as a heritage of Seneca’s instructioallows to interpreting the judgment’s formation in an enlarged way, as an aesthetic, moral and political judgment.