The following work is an effort to better understand commonwealths by exploring the circumstances, rights, and desires of those who found them or recognize their authority. While it is apparent that mankind’s affairs are governed largely by commonwealths or similar bodies, the reasons that men have for establishing them and the rights upon which their authority is established can be more difficult to grasp. In this work, differing perspectives on the condition of men in nature, the rights they naturally possess, and the primary desires that motivate them are considered in hopes of determining a commonwealth’s purpose. Visions and definitions of commonwealths given by the same philosophers are then reviewed and compared with one another to determine the ways that their respective views on man and his condition mold the arrangements they put forth. Better understanding the relationship between men, their circumstances, and the governments they create could be of great value to those trying to determine why existing commonwealths have taken their present forms. Such insight would also clarify which attributes of a commonwealth are most essential to ensuring that it accomplishes the purposes for which it was established.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Music, March 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thèse Lettres. Zurich. 1967. / Paraît comme vol. 7 des Züricher Beiträge zur Pädagogik.

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L'oeuvre de Jean-Jacques Rousseau révèle une assez grande variété de forme, de ton, et d'intérêt. Pour cette raison on peut toujours y trouver du nouveau, ce qui explique l'abondance d'interprétations et de réinterprétations que cette oeuvre a suscitée depuis deux siècles. J'avais commencé ma propre étude de Rousseau avec un sujet un peu différent en tête; je songeais à traiter le thème de la promenade chez Rousseau, sujet déjà étudié en détail par maints critiques, et qui se rapporte surtout à la vie de Jean-Jacques. [...]

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This dissertation is a study of the first three plays that Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote for the operatic stage: Iphis and La Decouverte du nouveau monde, both examples of the genre tragedie lyrique, and Les Muses galantes, an opera-ballet. Semiotic and poetic analyses bring to light striking resemblances between the dramatic situations depicted in the operas and the personal drama of the young Rousseau in love. As a whole, the operas reveal two distinct portraits of the self in love. The first, painted in colours of passion, reveals a self implicated in triangular relationships that are resolved through the abnegation of desire; the second, brushed in shades of contentment, devotion, and fidelity, celebrate the delights of requited love. These two portraits are studied in the light of Rousseau's principal writings in order to demonstrate how the early operatic works reflect true images of an ever evolving self in love.

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Thesis (M.A. 1980) from the Department of Politics, University of Adelaide.