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   What was education like during the Enlightenment?

   • Most work on the Enlightenment emphasizes the ideals discussed by intellectuals, rather than the actual state of education at the time. Leading educational theorists like England's John Locke and Switzerland's Jean Jacques Rousseau both emphasized the importance of shaping young minds early.

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   What did Rousseau believe about society?

   • Rousseau believed that life in society was essentially corrupting, but that men (it is not clear whether women figured in the social contract) could achieve true morality by joining in the social contract and living under laws that they themselves made.

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   Who influenced the Enlightenment?

   • The Enlightenment has been frequently linked to the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789—both had some intellectual influence from Thomas Jefferson.

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   Why was the Enlightenment created?

   • Russell said that the Enlightenment was ultimately born out of the Protestant reaction against the Catholic Counter-Reformation and that philosophical views such as affinity for democracy against monarchy originated among 16th-century Protestants to justify their desire to break away from the Catholic Church.

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   5 days ago · The Enlightenment was a complex and multifaceted movement that defies easy summary or characterization. At its core, it was a philosophical project that sought to apply the tools of reason and science to every aspect of human life, from politics and economics to art and education.

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   5 days ago · Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Advocate of Natural Freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher, believed that civilization corrupts the innate goodness of individuals. In "The Social Contract," Rousseau argued for the sovereignty of the people and the concept of the general will, which should guide the laws of the state.

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   5 days ago · 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.

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   May 10, 2024 · Abstract. In this chapter, I outline Rousseau’s unique vision of a persuasive language that exists beyond rhetoric. This imagistic language is the first that Rousseau discusses in his Essay on the Origin of Languages, and it is also the language that Rousseau claims the lawgiver must use, in order that he might persuade without convincing.

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   May 6, 2024 · Although similar ideas can be traced to the Greek Sophists, social-contract theories had their greatest currency in the 17th and 18th centuries and are associated with the English philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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   4 days ago · Most work on the Enlightenment emphasizes the ideals discussed by intellectuals, rather than the actual state of education at the time. Leading educational theorists like England's John Locke and Switzerland's Jean Jacques Rousseau both emphasized the importance of shaping young minds early.

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    May 17, 2024 · A revolution seemed necessary to apply the ideas of Montesquieu, Voltaire, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This Enlightenment was spread among the educated classes by the many “societies of thought” that were founded at that time: masonic lodges, agricultural societies, and reading rooms.