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   What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau think about the Enlightenment?

   • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement. Although a believer in the power of reason, science, and the arts, Rousseau was convinced that a flourishing culture hid a society full of inequalities and injustices.

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   What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau believe in?

   • Although a believer in the power of reason, science, and the arts, Rousseau was convinced that a flourishing culture hid a society full of inequalities and injustices. His most noted works include the First and Second Discourse, The Social Contract, and Émile. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 June 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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   How did Rousseau influence the French Revolution?

   • A second major influence is Rousseau’s political thought. Not only is he one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy, later influencing Karl Marx among others, but his works were also championed by the leaders of the French Revolution.

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   How did Rousseau influence the Encyclopédiste?

   • With the Discourse on Inequality, the distance between Rousseau and the Encyclopédiste mainstream of the French Enlightenment thought became clear. This rift was cemented with his 1758 publication of the Letter to d’Alembert on the Theater, in which he denounced the idea that his native city would benefit from the construction of a theater.

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   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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   3 days ago · Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Although he was the least academic of modern philosophers, he was also in many ways the most influential.

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   Jul 25, 2022 · Key Takeaways. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher with some radical ideas. He argued passionately for democracy, equality, liberty, and supporting the common good...

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   Dec 12, 2023 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Swiss philosopher whose work both praised and criticised the Enlightenment movement. Although a believer in the power of reason, science, and the arts, Rousseau was convinced that a flourishing culture hid a society full of inequalities and injustices.

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   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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   Sep 27, 2010 · 1. Life. 2. Conjectural history and moral psychology. 2.1 Morality. 3. Political Philosophy. 3.1 The idea of the general will. 3.2 The emergence of the general will: procedure, virtue and the legislator. 3.3 Rousseau’s claim to reconcile freedom and authority. 3.4 Representation and government. 3.5 Civil religion and toleration. 4. Language. 5.

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   Feb 29, 2024 · The Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) contributed with his mixing of Hobbes and Locke in stating that humans in a state of nature are free, equal, and have two basic instincts: a sense of self-preservation and a pity for others. The people must gather in a community based on consent and with the ultimate objective of that society ...