Innate goodness
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Camille Paglia considers Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom a "satirical response to Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in particular, and the Enlightenment concept of man's innate goodness in general. Much of the sexual violence in the book draws from the notorious historical cases of Gilles de Rais and Elizabeth Báthory.
In his 1988 Political Theory and Modernity, William E. Connolly analyzes Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom as an argument against earlier political philosophers, notably Rousseau and Hobbes, and their attempts to reconcile nature, reason and virtue as basis of ordered society.
* Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm * Baron d'Holbach * Epinay
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Innate goodness" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
