Amour de soi - Wikipedia Amour de soi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Part of a series on Love Types of love Affection Bonding Broken heart Compassionate love Conjugal love Courtly love courtship troubadours Falling in love Friendship cross-sex romantic zone Interpersonal relationship Intimacy Limerence Love addiction Love at first sight Love triangle Lovesickness Lovestruck Obsessive love Passion Platonic love Puppy love Relationship Romance Self-love Amour de soi Unconditional love Unrequited love Social views Anarchist Free love Chinese Ren Yuanfen French Amour-propre Greek words for love Agape Eros Ludus Mania Philautia Philia Philos Pragma Storge Xenia Indian Kama Bhakti Maitrī Islamic Ishq Jewish Chesed Latin Amore Charity Portuguese Saudade Yaghan Mamihlapinatapai Concepts Color wheel theory of love Biological basis Love letter Love magic Valentine's Day Philosophy Religious views love deities Mere-exposure effect Similarity Physical attractiveness Triangular theory of love v t e Amour de soi (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that refers to the kind of self-love that humans share with brute animals and predates the appearance of society. Concept[edit] Rousseau maintained in Emile that amour de soi is the source of human passion as well as the origin and the principle of all the other desires.[1][2] It is associated with the notion of "self-preservation" as a natural sentiment that drives every animal to watch over its own survival.[1] The philosopher stated that this type of love is prominent at the stage where our faculties are not developed, hence considered still one of a brute.[3] This concept forms part of Rousseau's argument that the gulf between humans and the rest of animal creation does not exist.[4] Acts committed out of amour de soi tend to be for individual well-being. It is considered "always good and always in conformity with order"[2] for it is not malicious because amour de soi as self-love does not involve pursuing one's self-interest at the expense of others. One is justified in ignoring the well-being of others if his well-being is materially threatened.[2] The sentiment does not compare oneself with others but is concerned solely with regarding oneself as an absolute and valuable existence. It is related to an awareness of one's future and can restrain the present impulse. Rousseau contrasts it with amour-propre, that kind of self-love, found in Thomas Hobbes' philosophy, in which one's opinion of oneself is dependent on what other people think and which arises only with society. Rousseau suggested that amour de soi was lost during the transition from the pre-societal condition to society, but it can be restored by the use of "good" institutions created with the social contract. This renewed passage from the state of nature to the civilized state would bring man to favor justice instead of instinct.[5] See also[edit] Amour-propre References[edit] ^ a b Scott, John T. (2006). Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Human nature and history. Oxon: Taylor & Francis. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-415-35085-3. ^ a b c Warner, John M. (2016). Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-07723-9. ^ Rawls, John (2009). Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-674-02492-2. ^ Porter, Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine Roy (1995). Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-520-20010-1. ^ Robert Derathé, Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la science politique de son temps, Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1995, pp. 135-141. v t e Jean-Jacques Rousseau Works Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Le devin du village Discourse on Inequality Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles Julie, or the New Heloise Emile, or On Education The Social Contract Constitutional Project for Corsica Pygmalion Confessions Considerations on the Government of Poland Letters on the Elements of Botany Essay on the Origin of Languages Dialogues: Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques Reveries of a Solitary Walker Concepts Amour de soi Amour-propre General will This philosophy-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amour_de_soi&oldid=994176147" Categories: Concepts in the philosophy of mind Self Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosophy of love Philosophy stubs Hidden categories: All stub articles Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 14 December 2020, at 13:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 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