Jean-JacquesRousseau
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Jean-JacquesRousseau (June1712-July1778) wasaSwissbornphilosopher, author, politicaltheorist, composer, andrankedoneofthegreatestfiguresoftheFrenchEnlightenment.Atage30, , DiscourseontheArtsandSciences (1750), (1752) waswidelyadmired.
InDiscourseontheOriginandFoundationsofInequalityAmongMen (1754), hearguedagainstThomasHobbesthathumanlifebeforetheformationofsocietieswashealthy, happy, , heheld, comesintobeingonlytoensurepeaceandtoprotectproperty, whichnoteveryonehas; itthusrepresentsafraudulentsocialcontractthatreinforcesinequality.
InTheSocialContract (1762), whichbeginswiththememorableline, Manwasbornfree, , namely, politicalliberty, whichheunderstandsasobediencetoaself-imposedlawcreatedbythegeneralwill.
In1762thepublicationofEmile, atreatiseoneducation, producedoutrage, andRousseauwasforcedtofleetoSwitzerland.Hebeganshowingsignsofmentalinstabilityin1767, -JacquesRousseau (1770), , isamongthemostfamousautobiographies.
Rousseau’: thelostunityofhumankindandnature; theelevationoffeelingandinnocenceandthedowngradingoftheintellect; adynamicconceptionofhumanhistoryanditsdifferentstages; afaithinteleologyandinthepossibilityofrecapturingavanishedfreedom.
ThefollowingpassageistakenfromthebookTheSocialContract.
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