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1. worldhistoryedu.com › jean-jacques-rousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau – Beliefs, Famous Works & Major ...

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   Jan 12, 2022 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Beliefs, Famous Works & Major Accomplishments. by World History Edu · January 12, 2022. Most known for his philosophical treatises Émile; or, On Education (1762), A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762), 18 th century Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau who stated ...

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   Apr 23, 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.

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   Sep 27, 2010 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in the independent Calvinist city-state of Geneva in 1712, the son of Isaac Rousseau, a watchmaker, and Suzanne Bernard. Rousseau’s mother died nine days after his birth, so Rousseau was raised and educated by his father until the age of ten. Isaac Rousseau was one of the small minority of Geneva’s residents ...

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   • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland—died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.

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   • Jean-Jacques Rousseau | In addition to having a big impact on the French Revolution, Rousseau’s philosophy and ideas have had influences on modern political, economic and social thought. Born – June 28, 1712 Place of birth – Geneva, Switzerland Died – July 2, 1778, France Aged – 66 Parents – Isaac Rousseau and suzanne Bernard Rousseau

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   • Rousseau’s thinking has had a profound influence on later philosophers and political theorists, although the tensions and ambiguities in his work have meant that his ideas have been developed in radically incompatible and divergent ways.

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   • Rousseau and members of the philosophes contributed to the French Encyclopédie, one of the major works of the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot served as the chief editor of the Encyclopédie. Rousseau’s original ideas were some of the reasons the Encyclopédie became an extremely important work of the age.

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6. www.sparknotes.com › philosophy › rousseauSelected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Necessity of ...

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   The Necessity of Freedom. In his work, Rousseau addresses freedom more than any other problem of political philosophy and aims to explain how man in the state of nature is blessed with an enviable total freedom. This freedom is total for two reasons. First, natural man is physically free because he is not constrained by a repressive state ...

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   Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: / ˈ r uː s oʊ /, US: / r uː ˈ s oʊ / French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (), writer, and composer.His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.

   • Years active: from 1743
   • Notable awards: Académie de Dijon (1750)

   • Literary movement: Sentimentalism

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   Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) 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 begins the Second Discourse by distinguishing two kinds of inequality, natural and artificial, the first arising from differences in strength, intelligence, and so forth, the second from the conventions that govern societies. It is the inequalities of the latter sort that he set out to explain. Adopting what he thought the properly ...