Maria Vita Romeo

The stay in Turin, among Jansenists and Jesuits, is the beginning of a tormented but fertile moral and religious journey for young Rousseau. In this journey, the concept of heart and the concept of conscience in relation to the dominion of Enlightenment reasoning are of great importance. From Calvinist Geneva to Jansenist Turin, matures a process in which Agostino’s shadow accompanies Jean-Jacques’s future reflections on evil, on society and on private property...