Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Famous Philosopher

Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a very important philosopher during his era. Many consider Rousseau the most influential philosopher during his time. He played a major role in advancing the way parents educated their children, as well as how they took interest in their children. His thoughts on politics greatly influenced the political state in France during the Age of Enlightenment. His most famously known work is A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences. This book was Rousseau’s opinion on how art and science had a terrible impact of how morality in the world. While he is most famously known for being a philosopher, he also was widely versed in many different other areas. He was a musical theorist and well as a musical composer. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28,1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. His mothers name was Suzanne Bernard and his fathers name was Isaac Rousseau. When Rousseau was born, his mother …show more content…
He had a period of “rebirth,” this is when he moved back to Geneva with his mistress, Therese Levasseur, and asked for “readmission” to the Protestant Church. After his readmission, he began to write the second Discourse. His first Discourse had been questioned by the Academy. They wanted to know “What is the origin of the inequality among men and is it justified by natural law?”(Cranston, Maurice) He argued that his first Discourse by proving that people truly are good and this is naturally occurring. He then traced how people are truly corrupted by their surroundings. He began to apply his principle ideas specifically the ones in his Discourses, “which maintains that every variety of injustice found in human society is an artificial result of the control exercised by defective political and intellectual influences over the healthy natural impulses of otherwise noble savages” (Garth