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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**
 * 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 were published several years after his death; and his later political writings, in the nineteenth century.
 * **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 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 man
 * · Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (1750), argued that the advancement of art and science had not been beneficial to man