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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher writer and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political sociological and educational thought. Rousseau’s novel Émile or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship.

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birth date
1712-06-28
birth place
Geneva, Canton of Geneva
death date
1778-07-02
death place
Kingdom of France, Ermenonville
era
Age of Enlightenment, Modern philosophy
influenced
David Hume, French Revolution, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, Romanticism, Thomas Paine, Counter-Enlightenment, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Maria Montessori, Maximilien de Robespierre, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Leo Strauss
influenced by
Baruch Spinoza, Denis Diderot, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Plato, Thomas Hobbes
LCCN Id
n/79/008220
main interest
Political philosophy
notableIdea
Popular sovereignty, Student-centred learning, General will, Human nature, Amour-propre, Civil religion, Positive liberty
philosophicalSchool
Romanticism, Social contract

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