Charrak, André <br/><br/>
Nature, Reason and Morality in Spinoza and Rousseau 

 -  2002.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> It is first through the discussion, by Pufendorf, of Tractatus theologicopoliticus, chapter XVI, that Rousseau knows Spinoza, even if a more direct and wider knowledge seems to be probable. It might be advisable to compare the theories of state of nature and natural right proposed by Spinoza and Rousseau, who are both original in the fact that they don’t postulate from the outset the use of reason. The genesis of moral relations, in both authors, encounters similar problems and confers to pity the same part before considering its rational generalisation. Actually, Rousseau wants to set up the model of a man accordant with nature, following a method which had a (provisional) place in Ethic.