Gaspar Melchor de JovellanosAnd Other Europeanists in Favour of the Socio-economic Well-Being of the Nations of Europe

  1. Ricardo Martín de la Guardia
  2. Guillermo Pérez Sánchez
  3. Luis Alberto Moratinos Lagartos
Libro:
The European Union and its Political Leaders: Understanding the Integration Process
  1. David Ramiro Troitiño (coord.)
  2. Ricardo Martín de la Guardia (coord.)
  3. Guillermo A. Pérez Sánchez (coord.)

Editorial: Springer Suiza

ISBN: 978-3-030-96661-4

Año de publicación: 2022

Páginas: 39-47

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96662-1_5 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85159026821 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resumen

Starting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a school of thought began to take shape around the idea that forming new links among Europeans-among them, socio-economic connections-was vitally important. These links would protect Europeans’ “common interests” and promote general socio-economic welfare peacefully (as abbot Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Rousseau, Kant etc. had thought) and by means of good governance (as philosophers from Locke to Victor Hugo and Saint-Simon to Proudhon, Comte etc. had theorised). Renowned and prestigious figures strove for that end, and their efforts set in motion a virtuous circle, starting with Claude Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) and coming full circle with Spaniard Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811). Is education not what teaches men their duties and creates in them an inclination to fulfil them? Jovellanos, Memoria sobre la educación pública (A Report on Public Education).

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