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Jun 28, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
Jun 28, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau, undated aquatint. As part of what Rousseau called his “reform,” or improvement of his own character, he began to look back at some of the austere principles that he had learned as a child in the Calvinist republic of Geneva.
Jun 17, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, undated aquatint. Rousseau, in Discours sur l’origine de l’inegalité (1755; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality ), held that in the state of nature humans were solitary but also healthy, happy, good, and free.
Jun 16, 2024 · So, who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and what did he believe? Rousseau struggled all of his life to fit into normal society. His philosophy is, in part, an attempt to justify his own unrestrained behavior, and he blamed society for all evil—not the individual, and certainly not himself.
1 day ago · (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile) He's talking about how this superstitious tradition of oath keeping is much more effective than what we have today with laws and contracts. For Rousseau, society is either governed by persuasion, rhetoric, poetry, myth, music, or by coercion, self-interest, and the threat of physical force.
Jun 28, 2024 · Jean–Jacques Rousseau was the maverick of the Enlightenment. Born a Protestant in Geneva in 1712 (d. 1778), he had to support himself as a music copyist. Unlike Voltaire and Montesquieu, both of whom came from rich families, Rousseau faced poverty nearly all his life.
Jun 21, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau — ‘I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.’
