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Isaac Rousseau (December 28, 1672 – May 9, 1747) was a Genevan master-clockmaker.
Sep 27, 2010 · Isaac Rousseau was one of the small minority of Geneva’s residents who enjoyed the rank of citizen of Geneva, and was therefore a member of the city’s nominally sovereign assembly. Jean-Jacques was to inherit this status.
Rousseau's father, Isaac Rousseau, followed his grandfather, father and brothers into the watchmaking business. He also taught dance for a short period. Isaac, notwithstanding his artisan status, was well-educated and a lover of music.
Dec 16, 2009 · Individual Enlightenment thinkers often had very different approaches. Locke differed from David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson from Frederick the Great. Their ...
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Oct 30, 2005 · A year after his mother-in-law's death in 1710, Isaac Rousseau, having been absent for fully six years, finally came home, attracted no doubt by the 10,000 florins that Suzanne had inherited.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in 1750.
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Rousseau as an important, albeit controversial, intellectual. In this essay, Rousseau introduces his thesis that, far from perfecting humans, the arts and sciences—that is, culture and society in general—have corrupted them. 1752 – Le Devin du village: Rousseau’s opera, highly successful early
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