{"id":6169,"date":"2016-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/rousseau-la-nature-a-fait-lhomme-heureux-et-bon-mais-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:10:05","slug":"rousseau-la-nature-a-fait-lhomme-heureux-et-bon-mais-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/rousseau-la-nature-a-fait-lhomme-heureux-et-bon-mais-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousseau : \u00ab La nature a fait l&#039;homme heureux et bon, mais&#8230; \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><a title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-4-31.jpg\" alt=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\"><\/a>Amoureux inconditionnel de la nature, Rousseau d\u00e9fend cette conception avec plus de passion que de raison. En cela, Jean-Jacques est un pr\u00e9romantique dans l\u2019\u00e2me, jusque dans ses professions de foi politiques ou religieuses.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"lumi\u00e8res citations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-4\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c0 feuilleter pour tout savoir.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La nature a fait l\u2019homme heureux et bon, mais [\u2026] la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 le d\u00e9prave et le rend mis\u00e9rable.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1035\" class=\"cit-num\">1035<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"rousseau citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/rousseau\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/jean-jacques-rousseau\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Jean-Jacques <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">ROUSSEAU<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (1712-1778), <cite>Dialogues\u00a0: Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques<\/cite> (1772-1776)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Postulat qui fonde toute son \u0153uvre politique, p\u00e9dagogique, morale, religieuse, romanesque. <\/p>\n<p>On le trouve d\u00e8s 1750 dans le <em>Discours sur les sciences et les arts<\/em>\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Nos \u00e2mes se sont corrompues \u00e0 mesure que nos sciences et nos arts se sont avanc\u00e9s \u00e0 la perfection.\u00a0\u00bb Il r\u00e9cidive avec sa <em>Lettre \u00e0 d\u2019Alembert sur les spectacles<\/em> (1758) qui dit les dangers du th\u00e9\u00e2tre en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et de Moli\u00e8re en particulier, \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9cole de mauvaises m\u0153urs\u00a0\u00bb. Rousseau en fait tout un roman par lettres, \u00ab\u00a0best-seller\u00a0\u00bb du temps (plus de 70 \u00e9ditions en quarante ans), hymne \u00e0 la nature, la vertu et la passion\u00a0: <em>Julie ou la Nouvelle H\u00e9lo\u00efse<\/em> (1761). Ce \u00ab\u00a0barbare\u00a0\u00bb qui d\u00e9nonce le faux progr\u00e8s de la civilisation des Lumi\u00e8res heurte tous les autres philosophes.<\/p>\n<p>En 1762, le <em>Contrat social<\/em> d\u00e9coulera logiquement de ce constat, de m\u00eame le trait\u00e9 sur l\u2018\u00e9ducation des <a title=\"enfants citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/enfants\">enfants<\/a>, <em>L\u2019\u00c9mile<\/em>, inspir\u00e9 de son exp\u00e9rience personnelle d\u2019autodidacte (et du bon sens de Montaigne)\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019essentiel est d\u2019\u00eatre ce que nous fit la nature\u00a0; on n\u2019est toujours que trop ce que les hommes veulent que l\u2019on soit.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ose presque assurer que l\u2019\u00e9tat de r\u00e9flexion est un \u00e9tat contre nature et que l\u2019homme qui m\u00e9dite est un animal d\u00e9prav\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1036\" class=\"cit-num\">1036<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"rousseau citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/rousseau\">Jean-Jacques <span class=\"caps\">ROUSSEAU<\/span><\/a> (1712-1778), <em>Discours sur l\u2019origine et les fondements de l\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9 parmi les hommes<\/em> (1755)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cette petite phrase va, naturellement, faire r\u00e9agir Voltaire\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0J\u2019ai re\u00e7u, Monsieur, votre nouveau livre contre le genre humain\u2026 On n\u2019a jamais employ\u00e9 tant d\u2019esprit \u00e0 vouloir nous rendre b\u00eates. Il prend envie de marcher \u00e0 quatre pattes, quand on lit votre ouvrage.\u00a0\u00bb Incompatibilit\u00e9 d\u2019esprit entre les deux hommes. Ulc\u00e9r\u00e9, Rousseau \u00e9crit \u00e0 son ami M.\u00a0Moulton\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je le ha\u00efrais davantage, si je le m\u00e9prisais moins.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Si l\u2019on n\u2019e\u00fbt \u00e9cout\u00e9 que ce que Dieu a dit au c\u0153ur de l\u2019homme, il n\u2019y aurait jamais eu qu\u2019une seule religion sur terre.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1049\" class=\"cit-num\">1049<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"rousseau citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/rousseau\">Jean-Jacques <span class=\"caps\">ROUSSEAU<\/span><\/a> (1712-1778), <em>Profession de foi du Vicaire savoyard<\/em> (1762)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ap\u00f4tre de la religion naturelle, il dresse contre les religions r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9es un r\u00e9quisitoire \u2013 applaudi par Voltaire, cette fois\u00a0! Le <em>Contrat social<\/em> pr\u00e9voit l\u2019institution d\u2019un culte civil, lien mystique entre les citoyens. D\u2019o\u00f9 l\u2019\u00e9loge appuy\u00e9 de Robespierre dans son discours du 18 flor\u00e9al an\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">II<\/span>, cr\u00e9ant le culte de l\u2019\u00catre supr\u00eame.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Le sang d\u2019un seul homme est d\u2019un plus grand prix que la libert\u00e9 de tout le genre humain.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1048\" class=\"cit-num\">1048<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a title=\"rousseau citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/rousseau\">Jean-Jacques <span class=\"caps\">ROUSSEAU<\/span><\/a> (1712-1778), Lettre \u00e0 la comtesse de Wartensleben, 27\u00a0septembre 1766. <em>Correspondance<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tous les philosophes dont les hommes de la R\u00e9volution se r\u00e9clameront auraient d\u00e9savou\u00e9 le tournant qu\u2019elle prendra sous la Terreur. En cela, Rousseau fait \u00e9cho \u00e0 la non-violence ch\u00e8re \u00e0 ses confr\u00e8res, poussant plus loin cette pens\u00e9e classique (voir Socrate) et tr\u00e8s contemporaine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amoureux inconditionnel de la nature, Rousseau d\u00e9fend cette conception avec plus de passion que de raison. En cela, Jean-Jacques est un pr\u00e9romantique dans l\u2019\u00e2me, jusque dans ses professions de foi politiques ou religieuses. \u00c0 feuilleter pour tout savoir. \u00ab\u00a0La nature a fait l&#8217;homme heureux et bon, mais [\u2026] la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 le d\u00e9prave et le rend [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bon-citation-du-jour-deprave-fait-heureux-homme-heureux-jean-jacques-rousseau-mais-miserable-nature-siecle-des-lumieres-societe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}