ABSTRACT
The decisive influence of Immanuel Kant in the course of
modern philosophy is incontrovertible. In a sense, had it not been for
this monumental figure of the 18th century, philosophy would have never
reached the flair to convey the existential, analytical and
phenomenological questions of modernity.
However, if Kant set the agenda for any posterior thought, he
was not himself Kantian until Jean-Jacques Rousseau disenchanted him.
In this regard, if the Genevois philosopher communicated his philosophy
in the guise of an education, philosophy in itself is defined by the
education of humanity. It is indeed this perspective of Rousseau that put
the German philosopher on the right track to find the ultimate goal of
philosophy in the moral education as the sum and substance of the
practical philosophy. The objective of this study is to shed some lights
on the unparalleled role of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Kant’s philosophy
of education as the harbinger of the universal ethics beyond the dogmas
of a blind theology: the question which still remains crucial today.
KEYWORDS
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; Immanuel Kant ; Philosophy of Education ;
Moral Philosophy ; Emile ; Nature ; Negative Education ; Education of
body ; Mind ; Intellectual Education ; Religious Education ; Theology ;
Natural Religion, Moral Education ; Sexual Education ; Enlightenment.