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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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   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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   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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   How did Prussia contribute to the Enlightenment?

   • Prussia took the lead among the German states in sponsoring the political reforms that Enlightenment thinkers urged absolute rulers to adopt. There were important movements as well in the smaller states of Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and the Palatinate.

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   5 days ago · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), a Swiss-born philosopher whose "Discourse on Inequality" (1755) and "The Social Contract" (1762) argued that the original state of nature was one of equality and freedom, and that the legitimacy of government rests on the general will of the people. Rousseau‘s ideas inspired the French Revolution and the ...

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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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   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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   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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   5 days ago · The Enlightenment concepts of natural rights and the social contract are foundational to the American Revolution and the framework of American government. These ideas, particularly articulated by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, provided the ideological bedrock upon which the United States was founded.

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   2 days ago · Enlightenment Thinkers: During the Enlightenment, philosophers like John Locke argued for the sovereignty of the individual, while Voltaire championed freedom of speech and tolerance. Jean-Jacques Rousseau‘s writings on social contract theory profoundly influenced the French Revolution. These thinkers laid the groundwork for modern democracy ...

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    1 day ago · On Rousseau, Hegel and Jellinek see Sonenscher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 141–77. On Michoud (and some of his French and German contemporaries) see the wide-ranging but now largely forgotten Hallis , Frederick , Corporate Personality: A Study in Jurisprudence ( Oxford , 1930 ) Google Scholar ; and, more recently, Xavier Dupré de Boulis and ...