ABSTRACT A division in scholarship on Rousseau’s Second Discourse turns on the issue of division itself. Some see Rousseau’s natural man collapsing the division between man and beast through suggesting that our origins might be in orangutans, while others see Rousseau depicting a rupture of the human being from the rest of the animal kingdom through the separation of the physical and the metaphysical. I argue that in looking to the natural scientific culture of Rousseau’s own time, one can see that he is employing a uniquely informed vision of the human being that itself straddles this divide of interpretation through presenting man as both a naturally and mythically hybrid creature. To conclude, I claim that illuminating this hybrid identity of the human being also sheds new light on the kind of narrative Rousseau employs. His ‘hypothetical history’ is itself a hybrid of two distinct origin stories, mirroring the very argument Rousseau is making: that man is always a duplex of the animal and the spiritual. This moves beyond presenting Rousseau as a thinker of irresolvable paradoxes to seeing the Second Discourse as a resolved presentation of what it means to be a natural duplex.

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双重人：卢梭第二话语中人的两个起源

摘要 关于卢梭第二话语的学术界的一个分歧转向了分歧本身的问题。有些人认为卢梭的自然人通过暗示我们的起源可能来自猩猩来消除人与兽之间的分歧，而另一些人则认为卢梭通过物理和形而上学的分离描绘了人类与动物王国的其他部分的断裂。我认为，在审视卢梭自己时代的自然科学文化时，人们可以看到他正在采用一种独特的人类视野，这种视野本身跨越了这种解释的鸿沟，通过将人呈现为自然和神话中的混合生物。总而言之，我声称阐明人类的这种混合身份也为卢梭所采用的叙事类型提供了新的启示。他的“假设历史”本身就是两个不同起源故事的混合体，反映了卢梭正在提出的论点：人总是动物和精神的双重体。这超越了将卢梭呈现为无法解决的悖论的思想家，而是将第二话语视为对自然双工意味着什么的明确呈现。