A MORTE MORAL E A ECONOMIA DOS DESEJOS NO EMÍLIO DE ROUSSEAU

The anthropology developed by Rousseau in Émile is part of a project to a moral restoration. When he returns to the analysis of the passions, the ideas of freedom, strength and virtue and the foundations of moral feelings, the author outlines the economy of desires. We must draw attention to the political aspects involved in these conceptions, which allows us to treat them in all their materiality, and not only as parts of a system of abstract thought. Thus, both the moral feelings, as the passions and desires, and the conception of will, are examined, not only in its strictly moral sense. Taken to the extremes of morality, they show us the link between the physical and the spiritual, but also indicate a point of rupture in the manifestations of the voice of conscience, regression that characterizes what we call moral death.