Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Difference between revisions

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1712-1778. Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

Advocated the equality of all human beings and government by "general will" (volonté générale) (see also: Contract Theory). Furthermore, he criticised civilisation as a corruptive force and claimed that children were good from birth. In his Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782), Rousseau elaborates a topic from earlier works: solitude in nature as the precondition to the awareness of oneself, the timeless and "simple feeling of existence".

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--1778. Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. Advocated the equality of all human beings and government by "general will" (''volonté générale'') (see also: [[Contract Theory]]). Furthermore, he criticised civilisation as a corruptive force and claimed that children were good from birth. In his ''Reveries of the Solitary Walker'' (1782), Rousseau elaborates a topic from earlier works: solitude in nature as the precondition to the awareness of oneself, the timeless and "simple feeling of existence".
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+Advocated the equality of all human beings and government by "general will" (''volonté générale'') (see also: [[Contract Theory]]). Furthermore, he criticised civilisation as a corruptive force and claimed that children were good from birth. In his ''Reveries of the Solitary Walker'' (1782), Rousseau elaborates a topic from earlier works: solitude in nature as the precondition to the awareness of oneself, the timeless and "simple feeling of existence".
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