Western Philosophers
18th century philosophy
(Modern Philosophy)
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Rousseau in 1753, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour |
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Name
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Birth
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28 June 1712(1712-06-28)
Geneva, Switzerland
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Death
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2 July 1778
Ermenonville, France
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School/tradition
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Social contract theory, Enlightenment
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Main interests
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Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
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Notable ideas
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General will, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty
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Influences
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Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel De Montaigne, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Barbeyrac, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Denis Diderot
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Influenced
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Kant, The French Revolution, Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just, The Counter-Enlightenment,Fichte, Hegel, Goethe, Romanticism, Paine, Comte, Bolivar, Marx, Engels, Derrida, Paul de Man, Benedetto Croce, Galvano Della Volpe, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Émile Durkheim, Mikhael Bakunin, Maria Montessori, Leo Tolstoy, John Rawls
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712 – 2 July 1778) ek famous French bhasa waala philosopher rahaa. Uu Geneva, Switzerland me paida bhaes rahaa aur apne ke Genevan bolat rahaa.
Rousseau, 18th century me The Age of Enlightenment me rahat rahaa. Uske political ideology French Revolution se influence bhaes rahaa aur jisse nationalism aur socialist theories banaa rahaa. Rousseau ek composer bhi rahaa, aur music ke baare me dher book likhis rahaa.
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