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en-wikipedia-org-1827		Amour de soi - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	890	152	74	Amour de soi (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that refers to the kind of self-love that humans share with brute animals and predates the appearance of society. Rousseau maintained in Emile that amour de soi is the source of human passion as well as the origin and the principle of all the other desires.[1][2] It is associated with the notion of "self-preservation" as a natural sentiment that drives every animal to watch over its own survival.[1] The philosopher stated that this type of love is prominent at the stage where our faculties are not developed, hence considered still one of a brute.[3] This concept forms part of Rousseau's argument that the gulf between humans and the rest of animal creation does not exist.[4] Rousseau suggested that amour de soi was lost during the transition from the pre-societal condition to society, but it can be restored by the use of "good" institutions created with the social contract.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1827.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1827.txt