Life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva the 28th June 1712, and died the 2nd July 1778 in Ermenonville, France. Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
His ideas were about political and ethical thinking with which he had a profound impact on people´s way of life.
Formative Years
Rousseau’s mother died in childbirth, and he was grown up by his father. His father was a watchmaker and in the time he got some troubles with the civil authorities he had to move and leave Geneva , to avoid imprisonment. Rousseau Rousseau, the son, then lived for six years as a poor relation in his mother’s family, patronized and humiliated, …show more content…
For Rousseau man is a slave to his own needs and is responsible for all his societal ills , from dominations of others to poor self-esteem and depression.
Rousseau also believed that good government must have the freedom of all its citizens as its most fundamental objective. The Social Contract in particular is Rousseau’s attempt to imagine the form of government that best affirms the individual freedom of all its citizens, with certain constraints inherent to a complex, modern, civil society. Rousseau acknowledged that as long as property and laws exist, people can never be as entirely free in modern society as they are in the state of nature, a point later echoed by Marx and many other Communist and anarchist social philosophers. Nonetheless, Rousseau strongly believed in the existence of certain principles of government that, if enacted, can afford the members of society a level of freedom that at least approximates the freedom enjoyed in the state of nature. In The Social Contract and his other works of political philosophy, Rousseau is devoted to outlining these principles and how they may be given expression in a functional modern
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva the 28th June 1712, and died the 2nd July 1778 in Ermenonville, France. Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
His ideas were about political and ethical thinking with which he had a profound impact on people´s way of life.
Formative Years
Rousseau’s mother died in childbirth, and he was grown up by his father. His father was a watchmaker and in the time he got some troubles with the civil authorities he had to move and leave Geneva , to avoid imprisonment. Rousseau Rousseau, the son, then lived for six years as a poor relation in his mother’s family, patronized and humiliated, …show more content…
For Rousseau man is a slave to his own needs and is responsible for all his societal ills , from dominations of others to poor self-esteem and depression.
Rousseau also believed that good government must have the freedom of all its citizens as its most fundamental objective. The Social Contract in particular is Rousseau’s attempt to imagine the form of government that best affirms the individual freedom of all its citizens, with certain constraints inherent to a complex, modern, civil society. Rousseau acknowledged that as long as property and laws exist, people can never be as entirely free in modern society as they are in the state of nature, a point later echoed by Marx and many other Communist and anarchist social philosophers. Nonetheless, Rousseau strongly believed in the existence of certain principles of government that, if enacted, can afford the members of society a level of freedom that at least approximates the freedom enjoyed in the state of nature. In The Social Contract and his other works of political philosophy, Rousseau is devoted to outlining these principles and how they may be given expression in a functional modern