Research Paper On Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born to quite the average middle-class family in Geneva in 1712, his mother dying shortly after childbirth, he was raised by his father. Rousseau’s father was a litterateur of many ancient works mostly regarding the famous philosophies of the Greeks and Romans. His father being forced to flee Geneva when Rousseau when he was only ten years of age, but this was long enough for the ideas that his father studied to stick with him for the rest of his life. Rousseau began writing while he was still living in Geneva with his uncle, he wrote all kinds of works, writing being a divertissement to his regular life. He would submit his writings to contests and brandish them to his companions. Though his father only studied ancient …show more content…
He used some of this inspiration to simply dissent the common idea of many Enlightenment thinkers attempting to usher in his own new era of Rousseau-esque thinking. Later in his life, he recalled his childhood and began to write his own books on how he felt the world should work and his ideas on human nature, emulating the method of writing of those peoples who influenced him. At this point in his life he decided that the “small town experience” wasn’t good enough and set off for the glamorous life of France in order to expand his writing career.
Rousseau’s first published writing regarding philosophy was an essay titled Discours sur les sciences et les arts, in which Rousseau first established his