Jean-Jacques Rousseau

French bhasa waala philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (17122 July 1778) ek famous French bhasa waala philosopher rahaa. Uu Geneva, Switzerland me paida bhaes rahaa aur apne ke Genevan bolat rahaa.

Western Philosophers
18th century philosophy
(Modern Philosophy)
Rousseau in 1753, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

Name

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Birth

28 June 1712(1712-06-28)
Geneva, Switzerland

Death

2 July 1778
Ermenonville, France

School/tradition

Social contract theory, Enlightenment

Main interests

Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography

Notable ideas

General will, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty

Influences

Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel De Montaigne, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Barbeyrac, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Denis Diderot

Influenced

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

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.