Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the notion of the 'pitié"

Abstract

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU E A NOCAO DE PITIE Resumo: para Rousseau, no estado de natureza, o homem e regulado por dois principios, o amor de si e a pitie , ou seja, antes mesmo do concurso da razao e da sociedade os fundamentos da moral estao presentes. Dotado de uma comiseracao natural, o homem nesse estado nao historico nao e bom porque distingue o bem do mal, mas porque a maxima que o inspira decorre da bondade natural e o leva a fazer o seu bem como o menor mal possivel. Palavras-chave: Pitie. Estado de natureza. Perfectibilidade. Razao. Moral. Abstract: for Rousseau, in the State of nature, man is governed by two principles, the “amour de soi” and the pitie, that means. even before of the contest of reason and the moral foundations of morality are present. Endowed with a natural sympathy, the man in this non-historic State is not good because it distinguishes right from wrong, but because the maximum that inspires him comes from stems from the natural goodness and leads him to make your as well as the least bad possible. Keywords: Pitie. State of nature. Perfectibility. Reason. Moral.