RETOUR SUR UN DIALOGUE OUBLIÉ: AMOUR ET NATURE (BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE)
RETOUR SUR UN DIALOGUE OUBLIÉ: AMOUR ET NATURE (BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE)

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to reopen the debate about the relationbetween love and nature, starting from a representative case study for theEuropean history of such a topic. Taking into account the very specific literaryand philosophical context of its time, we try to underline the importance of thevision propose through this key concepts. The nature of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Rousseau now become a very explanatory for all major constructionof speculative philosophy. In the real order history, love takes place in society, inthe territory of a story that gives it a place and supports economic ingredientsand time. Practically, we can’t discuss about love outside the context of theworld and history that produced her. Love outside history, recte only in thesimple nature, is not discoverable in what is already known. But is it possible tothink such a love? Can we suggest a love out of a minimum standards,conventions and strong moral, all what define a society?

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