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Human consciousness had moved from the cumbersome expression of immediate perceptions to an increasingly efficient system of symbolic codes. Language moved from its original physical and then “poetic” modes, to an increasing use of abstract signs. ”29 Rousseau’s historiography represents a major break from this tradition: not a straight line of technological progress but a circular return to spiritual beginnings. The divine origins of the human soul were not questioned by Condillac, Warburton, or Locke.
It is this potential to remember a perception that forms the basis of what we call experience. ” But for Condillac, imagination is a difficult and taxing mental operation, requiring the mind to reproduce a total sensory “image” of the object. ” “[W]e are not always able to revive the perceptions we have had. It can happen that we manage only to recall the name, some of the circumstances that accompanied the perceptions, and an abstract idea of perception . . ”7 As this passage indicates, what is necessary for this more efficient form of reflection is a sign, a marker that can hold the place of the object in our memory without requiring the imagination to reproduce each aspect of its full perception.
However, it is the belief in these forces which precede language, impulses ant´erieurs a` la raison, which ultimately defines the difference between Condillac’s materialist model of cognition and Rousseau’s revision of it. Identifying these principles provides History as abstraction 25 Rousseau with a ground he can call “nature,” an unquestioned point of authenticity, an anchor of social value. In the second stage of society, the directness of self-love and pity is replaced by sociability, reason, and convention.