ROUSSEAU AND CHILDHOOD OF FEELING

Abstract

The theme of this communication addresses the question of Emile and the political / pedagogical thinking of Rousseau. The methodology used was the literature where the works of Rousseau and its main commentators were surveyed. Among the major works that were surveyed three stand out: Discourse on Inequality, the Social Contract and Emile. It has been the objective and main problem to analyze the childhood feeling of concept in political and pedagogical thought of the author. The political thought of Rousseau has the collaborative source for its internal cohesion their pedagogical thinking. Rousseau's project is to train man and citizen. But among the barriers that his thinking ends up, on various topics, we have, in particular, that it calls our attention, which is the problem of man denaturation. For the training process happens in order to denature the man properly, you need to ask how to form the man from the idea of natural education, which in our view is the childhood moment. This education has its bases in the hypothetical arguments that Rousseau elaborated on natural state. This communication will address in particular the issue of understanding the first moment of man's education, namely childhood. In this way is treated the issue of childhood concept appearance in Rousseau's work, where we seek to understand what the child's place in education of man / citizen in the political project / teaching the study author.