A educação da mulher no pensamento rousseauniano: uma hermenêutica para além da formação do homem.

Abstract

The dissertation’s goal is the understanding deepening that we build up, over the history, on part of the classic philosophic system created by Rousseau. Based on the hermeneutics theoretical-methodology Hans-Georg Gadamer’s perspective, the Rousseau woman’s education thought was researched. Aiming to engage Jean- Jacques Rousseau XVIII century woman’s education ideas, the female figure among the author’s life impacts on his female characters development was studied, Sofia and Júlia; and so, the correlation between Rousseau’s real life, his characters and his female ideal was noticed through his fiction. The tenuous line between fiction and politics pieces indicates the gender’s diversity, bounded by him in civil society, also on his hypothetical nature’s state. These differences affect all Rousseau’s politicaleducational theory construction, since they become responsible for woman’s performance in a subordinated role that excludes them from republicans’ citizenship practice. The dissertation points out that these Rousseau thought aspects allow noticing his inhomogeneity concerning Greek and Judeo-Christian influences that are present in part of his philosophic system. Rousseau, by mentioning the female figure and the ideal education that it fits, shows a fidelity to his political and educational theory starting point, the obedience formation whereupon nature prescribes, as long as realizes differences between male and female’s natures. The dissertation describes Rousseau’s historical time, women’s situation and narrates his life through the history of the women who have been through his life. The characters that Rousseau created, their contexts, the way in which they reflect and act on the philosopher’s ideal and their proper education are part of the third and fourth following chapters on the risen reflection by thinking about women’s education on Rousseau’s work. The pieces used in the study and the way women appear are the main bibliographic material used on the research. In conclusion, the social design presented by Rousseau indicates that women are excluded of the public citizenship society distinctly from the men’s position. Rousseau’s understanding is that a woman should get the family’s bond formation in which way her participation on the public life would be given by an indirect via, that is to say, responsible for the man’s education and to accompany him on his democratic republican path.