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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: / ˈ r uː s oʊ /, US: / r uː ˈ s oʊ /; [1] [2] French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak 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 ...
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Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question is a book by Richard Velkley, in which the author offers an assessment of the position of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought within modern philosophy. [1] [2] [3]
Rousseau maintained in Emile that amour de soi is the source of human passion as well as the origin and the principle of all the other desires. [1] [2] It is associated with the notion of "self-preservation" as a natural sentiment that drives every animal to watch over its own survival. [1]
[2]: 26 However, Rousseau did not provide a clear account of how cultural progress had led to this decline. [2]: 26 In his work Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques, Rousseau used a fictional Frenchman as a literary device to lay out his intent in the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences and his other systematic works. The character explains that ...
Grace, Eve (2000). "Review of Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life; (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women; Instinct and Intimacy: Political Philosophy and Autobiography in Rousseau; Roussseau's Republican Romance". The American Political Science Review. 94 (4): 922– 924.
An encyclopedia of philosophy is a comprehensive reference work which seeks to make available to the reader a number of articles on the subject of philosophy. Many paper and online encyclopedias of philosophy have been written, with encyclopedias in general dating back to the 1st century AD with Pliny the Elder 's Naturalis Historia .
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, populariser of the idea of the general will. In political philosophy, the general will (French: volonté générale) is the will of the people as a whole. The term was made famous by 18th-century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.