Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

An eighteenth-century French philosopher ; one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment . He held that in the state of nature, people are good, but that they are corrupted by social institutions; this notion became a central idea of romanticism . Some of Rousseau's best-known writings are The Social Contract, an important influence on the French Revolution ; Émile, a statement of his views on education; and his autobiography , The Confessions.

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Both countries were responding to the ideas of radical thinkers like Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

As early as 1750, Jean-Jacques Rousseau had bemoaned that “neither reason nor virtue nor the laws will subjugate public opinion.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who had very little historical knowledge, has completely ignored the influence of Calvin on his republic.

Jean Jacques Rousseau in Emile advises the teacher to get the pupil to make his own playthings.

She borrowed her words from the infamous Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the friend of her scarce less infamous father—nay!

Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher of the eighteenth century.

Jean Jacques Rousseau never gave his real self to the world despite the loud Gallic boast of the paragraphs above.

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