Jean-Jacques+Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * As a brilliant, undisciplined, and unconventional thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent most of his life being driven by controversy back and forth between Paris and his native GenevaBirth Date-Born on June 28, 1712-1778 in Geneva, died in Switzerland Ermenonville, France)
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born to Isaac Rousseau and Suzanne Bernard
 * **Was deserted by his family at age 10***Was deserted by his family at age 10
 * His mother died only a few days later on July 7, and his only sibling, an older brother, ran away from home when Rousseau was still a child.
 * His //Confessions//Confessions were published several years after his death; and his later political writings, in the nineteenth century.
 * Quote-“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains”
 * **Quote-Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains” — Man must “be forced to be free.” These were the notions of Rousseau and those who followed him.**Quote-Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains” — Man must “be forced to be free.” These were the notions of Rousseau and those who followed him.

· Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

 * Rousseau*Rousseau was one of the first modern writers to seriously attack the institution of private property and therefore is considered a forebear of modern socialism and Communism. Rousseau also questioned the assumption that the will of the majority is always correct. He argued that the goal of government should be to secure freedom, equality, and justice for all within the state, regardless of the will of the majority.
 * Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (1750), argued that the advancement of art and science had not been beneficial to mankind
 * At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to an engraver. However, at 16 (in 1728) he left this trade to travel, but quickly become secretary and companion to Madame Louise de Warens. This relationship was unusual. Twelve years his senior she was in turns a mother figure, a friend and a lover. Under her patronage he developed a taste for music. *In 1740 he worked as a tutor to the two sons of M. de Mably in Lyon. It was not a very successful l experience hambéry
 * (1732) and began a period of intense self education.*Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Denis Diderot influenced him.
 * He influenced Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the Romantic movement, Thomas Paine, Auguste Comte.
 * From 1743 to 1744, he was secretary to the French ambassador in Venice
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