Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary...
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The landmark political treatise that refuted the so-called divine right of kings and established the principles of representative government "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract-the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of the Enlightenment, Rousseau...
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Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential figures of the 18th century. His political philosophy has been pointed to as a major contributing factor in causing the French Revolution. Social and economic inequality has been a pervasive element of human existence for the entirety of recorded history. The causes of this inequality are principal to the discussion of political, legal, and economic theory. Rousseau acknowledges...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is the first modern autobiography, and arguably the most influential autobiography ever written. What we think of as the "self," our self-sufficient identity, finds its roots in the Confessions. Rousseau's great autobiography speaks to us with a voice that is as relevant today as it was revolutionary and unsettling in the eighteenth...
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"The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is a one-of-a-kind autobiography. Up until its publication in 1782, only two autobiographies had ever been written, and both were written by devout religious saints. Highly scandalous yet witty in nature, calling Rousseau's work an "autobiography" is a loose categorization of the text, as many of the stories and tales have been proven false, yet Rousseau told the truth about the spirit of his life through...
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A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history's greatest minds The first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society-and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of inequality. One of the great thinkers of the...
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Born on June 28, 1712, the Genevan philosopher, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most prominent and definitive minds of the Enlightenment. Self-taught, Rousseau dabbled in many fields, keeping journals of his interests in science, mathematics, music, astronomy, botany, music, literature, and philosophy. He achieved sudden success and subsequent fame with his "A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences", a work that cemented his...
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Une édition de référence des Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Je suis né à Genève en 1712, d'Isaac Rousseau, citoyen, et de Suzanne Bernard, citoyenne. Un bien fort médiocre à partager entre quinze enfants ayant réduit presque à rien la portion de mon père, il n'avait pour subsister que son métier d'horloger, dans lequel il était à la vérité fort habile....
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"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their immediate appetites and desires leads to the development of self-governing,...
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The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.
Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the "best and most important" of all his writings, Émile set off a firestorm when it was first published in 1762. It was banned in Paris and burned in Geneva, but later served as the inspiration for a new national system of education during the French Revolution.
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The aim of the Discourse is to examine the foundations of inequality among men, and to determine whether this inequality is authorised by natural law. Rousseau attempts to demonstrate that modern moral inequality, which is created by an agreement between men, is unnatural and unrelated to the true nature of man.
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Extrait: "Il faut vous fuir, mademoiselle, je le sens bien: j'aurais dû beaucoup moins attendre; ou plutt il fallait ne vous voir jamais. Mais que faire aujourd'hui? Comment m'y prendre? Vous m'avez promis de l'amitié; voyez mes perplexités, et conseillez-moi. Vous savez que je ne suis entré dans votre maison que sur l'invitation de madame votre mère."
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Extrait: "(...) car comment connaître la source de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, si l'on ne commence par les connaître eux-mêmes ? Et comment l'homme viendra-t-il à bout de se voir tel que l'a formé la nature, à travers tous les changements que la succession des temps et des choses a dû produire dans sa constitution originelle, et de démêler ce qu'il tient de son propre fonds d'avec ce que les circonstances et ses progrès ont ajouté ou...
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Extrait : "C'est ici le second terme de la vie, et celui auquel proprement finit l'enfance ; car les mots infans et puer ne sont pas synonymes. Le premier est compris dans l'autre, et signifie qui ne peut parler ; d'o vient que dans Valère Maxime on trouve puerum infantem. Mais je continue à me servir de ce mot selon l'usage de notre langue, jusqu'à l'âge pour lequel elle a d'autres noms. Quand les enfants commencent à parler, ils pleurent moins."...
16) The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main idea behind "The Social Contract", in other words that man is essentially free if it weren't for the oppression of political organizations such as government. Rousseau goes on to lay forth the principles that he deems most important for achieving political right amongst people. Contained within this volume are also two discourses by...
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Contained within this volume are two discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality" Rousseau examines the causes of the inequalities that exist among men concluding that it is the natural result of the formation of any civilization. In "A Discourse on Political Economy" Rousseau examines the nature of politics and their effect on people. These two works lay a solid foundation for the political philosophy of Rousseau...
18) The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
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This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"-with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).
Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject of such intense debate, yet almost everyone...
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Julia o la Nueva Eloísa, obra epistolar publicada en 1760 que gozó de un enorme éxito en su época, nos sumerge en un análisis profundo de los sentimientos humanos: la pasión amorosa y el amor filial, el deber, el honor y la virtud, la amistad, la lealtad en el matrimonio... Pero, a pesar de un romanticismo incipiente, Rousseau no deja de ser el filósofo de la Ilustración, de tal manera que, además de relatar una historia de amor, podemos...
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Der Gesellschaftsvertrag;Jean-Jacques Rousseausorgte 1762 für Aufsehen als er sein Werk Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes veröffentlichte. Es wurde kurz nach der Veröffentlichung in einigen europäischen Staaten verboten und gilt bis heute als ein Meilenstein der Aufklärung.