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The,,, the,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Signature Jean-Jacques Rousseau (; French:; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His influenced the in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. Rousseau's novel is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship.

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His was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his —exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. His and are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. During the period of the, Rousseau was the most popular of the among members of the. He was interred as a national hero in the in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Youth [ ] Rousseau was born in, which was at the time a and a Protestant associate of the.

Since 1536, Geneva had been a republic and the seat of. Five generations before Rousseau, his ancestor Didier, a bookseller who may have published Protestant tracts, had escaped persecution from French Catholics by fleeing to Geneva in 1549, where he became a wine merchant.

[ ] Rousseau was proud that his family, of the moyen order (or middle-class), had voting rights in the city. Throughout his life, he generally signed his books 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva'. Geneva, in theory, was governed democratically by its male voting 'citizens'. The citizens were a minority of the population when compared to the immigrants, referred to as 'inhabitants', whose descendants were called 'natives' and continued to lack suffrage. In fact, rather than being run by vote of the 'citizens', the city was ruled by a small number of wealthy families that made up the 'Council of Two Hundred'; these delegated their power to a twenty-five member executive group from among them called the 'Little Council'. There was much political debate within Geneva, extending down to the tradespeople.

Much discussion was over the idea of the sovereignty of the people, of which the ruling class oligarchy was making a mockery. In 1707, a democratic reformer named protested this situation, saying 'a sovereign that never performs an act of sovereignty is an imaginary being'. [ ] He was shot by order of the Little Council.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's father,, was not in the city at this time, but Jean-Jacques's grandfather supported Fatio and was penalized for it. Les Charmettes, where Rousseau lived with in 1735–36, now a museum dedicated to Rousseau. Virtually all our information about Rousseau's youth has come from his posthumously published Confessions, in which the chronology is somewhat confused, though recent scholars have combed the archives for confirming evidence to fill in the blanks.

At age 13, Rousseau was apprenticed first to a and then to an engraver who beat him. At 15, he ran away from Geneva (on 14 March 1728) after returning to the city and finding the city gates locked due to the curfew. In adjoining he took shelter with a Roman Catholic priest, who introduced him to, age 29. Dreambox 7000 Cam Installierende here. She was a noblewoman of Protestant background who was separated from her husband. As professional lay proselytizer, she was paid by the King of to help bring Protestants to Catholicism. They sent the boy to, the capital of Savoy (which included Piedmont, in what is now Italy), to complete his conversion.

This resulted in his having to give up his Genevan citizenship, although he would later revert to Calvinism in order to regain it. In converting to Catholicism, both De Warens and Rousseau were likely reacting to Calvinism's insistence on the of man. Leo Damrosch writes: 'An eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still required believers to declare 'that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil, incapable by ourselves of doing good'. De Warens, a by inclination, was attracted to Catholicism's doctrine of forgiveness of sins. Adulthood [ ] Finding himself on his own, since his father and uncle had more or less disowned him, the teenage Rousseau supported himself for a time as a servant, secretary, and tutor, wandering in Italy (Piedmont and Savoy) and France.

During this time, he lived on and off with De Warens, whom he idolized and called his ' maman'. Flattered by his devotion, De Warens tried to get him started in a profession, and arranged formal music lessons for him. At one point, he briefly attended a seminary with the idea of becoming a priest. When Rousseau reached 20, De Warens took him as her lover, while intimate also with the steward of her house.

The sexual aspect of their relationship (in fact a ) confused Rousseau and made him uncomfortable, but he always considered De Warens the greatest love of his life. A rather profligate spender, she had a large library and loved to entertain and listen to music. She and her circle, comprising educated members of the Catholic clergy, introduced Rousseau to the world of letters and ideas.

Rousseau had been an indifferent student, but during his 20s, which were marked by long bouts of, he applied himself in earnest to the study of philosophy, mathematics, and music. At 25, he came into a small inheritance from his mother and used a portion of it to repay De Warens for her financial support of him.

At 27, he took a job as a tutor in. In 1742, Rousseau moved to Paris in order to present the with a new system of he believed would make his fortune. His system, intended to be compatible with, is based on a single line, displaying numbers representing between notes and dots and commas indicating rhythmic values. Believing the system was impractical, the Academy rejected it, though they praised his mastery of the subject, and urged him to try again.

Palazzo belonging to Tommaso Querini at 968 Cannaregio that served as the French Embassy during Rousseau's period as Secretary to the Ambassador From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to. This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand. I soon contracted that passion for Italian music with which it inspires all those who are capable of feeling its excellence. In listening to barcaroles, I found I had not yet known what singing was.

— In common with other philosophers of the day, Rousseau looked to a hypothetical as a normative guide. Rousseau criticized for asserting that since man in the 'state of nature.

Has no idea of goodness he must be naturally wicked; that he is vicious because he does not know virtue'. On the contrary, Rousseau holds that 'uncorrupted morals' prevail in the 'state of nature' and he especially praised the admirable moderation of the Caribbeans in expressing the sexual urge despite the fact that they live in a hot climate, which 'always seems to inflame the passions'. Rousseau asserted that the stage of human development associated with what he called 'savages' was the best or optimal in human development, between the less-than-optimal extreme of brute animals on the one hand and the extreme of decadent civilization on the other. '.[N]othing is so gentle as man in his primitive state, when placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes and the fatal of civil man'. Referring to the stage of human development which Rousseau associates with savages, Rousseau writes: Hence although men had become less forebearing, and although natural pity had already undergone some alteration, this period of the development of human faculties, maintaining a middle position between the indolence of our primitive state and the petulant activity of our egocentrism, must have been the happiest and most durable epoch. The more one reflects on it, the more one finds that this state was the least subject to upheavals and the best for man, and that he must have left it only by virtue of some fatal chance happening that, for the common good, ought never to have happened. The example of savages, almost all of whom have been found in this state, seems to confirm that the human race had been made to remain in it always; that this state is the veritable youth of the world; and that all the subsequent progress has been in appearance so many steps toward the perfection of the individual, and in fact toward the decay of the species.'

The perspective of many of today's environmentalists can be traced back to Rousseau who believed that the more men deviated from the state of nature, the worse off they would be. Espousing the belief that all degenerates in men's hands, Rousseau taught that men would be free, wise, and good in the state of nature and that instinct and emotion, when not distorted by the unnatural limitations of civilization, are nature's voices and instructions to the good life. Rousseau's 'noble savage' stands in direct opposition to the man of culture.

Stages of human development [ ] Rousseau believed that the savage stage was not the first stage of human development, but the third stage. Rousseau held that this third savage stage of human societal development was an optimum, between the extreme of the state of brute animals and animal-like 'ape-men' on the one hand and the extreme of decadent civilized life on the other. This has led some critics to attribute to Rousseau the invention of the idea of the, which conclusively showed misrepresents Rousseau's thought.

The expression 'the noble savage' was first used in 1672 by British poet in his play. Rousseau wrote that morality was not a societal construct, but rather 'natural' in the sense of 'innate', an outgrowth from man's instinctive disinclination to witness suffering, from which arise the emotions of compassion or empathy. These were sentiments shared with animals, and whose existence even acknowledged.

Rousseau (1755) [1754],, Holland, frontispiece and title page. Contrary to what many detractors have claimed, Rousseau never suggests that humans in the act morally; in fact, terms such as 'justice' or 'wickedness' are inapplicable to prepolitical society as Rousseau understands it. Morality proper, i.e., self-restraint, can only develop through careful education in a civil state. Humans 'in a state of Nature' may act with all of the ferocity of an animal. They are good only in a negative sense, insofar as they are self-sufficient and thus not subject to the vices of political society. [ ] In fact, Rousseau's natural man is virtually identical to a solitary or other, such as the as described by; and the 'natural' goodness of humanity is thus the goodness of an animal, which is neither good nor bad. Rousseau, a deteriorationist, proposed that, except perhaps for brief moments of balance, at or near its inception, when a relative equality among men prevailed, human civilization has always been artificial, creating inequality, envy, and unnatural desires.

[ ] Rousseau's ideas of human development were highly interconnected with forms of mediation, or the processes that individual humans use to interact with themselves and others while using an alternate perspective or thought process. According to Rousseau, these were developed through the innate perfectibility of humanity. These include a sense of self, morality, pity, and imagination. Rousseau's writings are purposely ambiguous concerning the formation of these processes to the point that mediation is always intrinsically part of humanity's development. An example of this is the notion that as an individual, one needs an alternative perspective to come to the realization that they are a 'self'.

In Rousseau's philosophy, society's negative influence on men centers on its transformation of, a positive self-love, into,. Amour de soi represents the instinctive human desire for, combined with the human power of. In contrast, amour-propre is artificial and encourages man to compare himself to others, thus creating unwarranted and allowing men to take pleasure in the pain or weakness of others.

[ ] Rousseau was not the first to make this distinction. It had been invoked by, among others. In the Rousseau argues that the arts and sciences have not been beneficial to humankind, because they arose not from authentic human needs but rather as a result of pride and. Moreover, the opportunities they create for idleness and luxury have contributed to the corruption of man. He proposed that the progress of had made governments more and had crushed individual; and he concluded that material progress had actually undermined the possibility of true by replacing it with,, and suspicion. Descarcare Gratis Desene Animate Dublate In Limba Romana. In contrast to the optimistic view of other figures, for Rousseau, has been inimical to the well-being of humanity, that is, unless it can be counteracted by the cultivation of civic morality and duty. Only in can man be ennobled—through the use of reason: The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.

Then only, when the voice of duty takes the place of physical impulses and right of appetite, does man, who so far had considered only himself, find that he is forced to act on different principles, and to consult his reason before listening to his inclinations. Although in this state he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature, he gains in return others so great, his faculties are so stimulated and developed, his ideas so extended, his feelings so ennobled, and his whole soul so uplifted, that, did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left, he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever, and, instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal, made him an intelligent being and a man. Society corrupts men only insofar as the Social Contract has not de facto succeeded, as we see in contemporary society as described in the (1754). In this essay, which elaborates on the ideas introduced in the, Rousseau traces man's social evolution from a primitive to modern society.

The earliest solitary humans possessed a basic drive for self-preservation and a natural disposition to or pity. They differed from animals, however, in their capacity for free will and their potential perfectibility. As they began to live in groups and form clans they also began to experience family love, which Rousseau saw as the source of the greatest happiness known to humanity.

As long as differences in wealth and status among families were minimal, the first coming together in groups was accompanied by a fleeting golden age of human flourishing. The development of agriculture, metallurgy, private property, and the and resulting dependency on one another, however, led to and conflict. As population pressures forced them to associate more and more closely, they underwent a psychological transformation: they began to see themselves through the eyes of others and came to value the good opinion of others as essential to their. [ ] Rousseau posits that the original, deeply flawed (i.e., that of Hobbes), which led to the modern state, was made at the suggestion of the rich and powerful, who tricked the general population into surrendering their liberties to them and instituted inequality as a fundamental feature of human society. Rousseau's own conception of the Social Contract can be understood as an alternative to this fraudulent form of association. At the end of the, Rousseau explains how the desire to have value in the eyes of others comes to undermine personal integrity and authenticity in a society marked by interdependence, and. In the last chapter of the Social Contract, Rousseau would ask 'What is to be done?'

He answers that now all men can do is to cultivate virtue in themselves and submit to their lawful rulers. To his readers, however, the inescapable conclusion was that a new and more equitable Social Contract was needed. Like other Enlightenment philosophers, Rousseau was critical of the. Political theory [ ] Part of on. — Leo Damrosch • Rousseau's biographer Leo Damrosch believes that the authorities chose to condemn him on religious rather than political grounds for tactical reasons.

[ ] • My present fame is owing to a very trifling composition, but which has made incredible noise. I was one evening at joking on Rousseau's affectations and contradictions, and said some things that diverted them. When I came home I put them in a letter, and showed it next day to Helvetius and the Duc de Nivernois; who were so pleased with it that, after telling me some faults in the language.they encouraged me to let it be seen. As you know, I willingly laugh at mountebanks, political or literary, let their talents be ever so great; I was not averse. The copies have spread like wildfire, et me voice a la mode [and behold, I am in fashion].Here is the letter: The King of Prussia to M.Rousseau: My dear Jean Jacques: You have renounced Geneva, your fatherland; you have had yourself chased from Switzerland, a country so much praised in your writings; France has issued a warrant against you.

Come, then, to me; I admire your talents; I am amused by your dreams, which (be it said in passing) occupy you too much and too long. You must at last be wise and happy. You have had yourself talked of enough for peculiarities hardly fitting to a truly great man.

Show your enemies that you can sometimes have common sense; this will annoy them without doing you harm. My states offer you a peaceful retreat; I wish you well, and would like to help you if you can find it good. But if you continue to reject my aid, be assured that I shall tell no one.

If you persist in racking your brains to find new misfortunes, choose such as you may desire; I am king, and can procure any to suit your wishes; and—what surely will never happen to you among your enemies—I shall cease to persecute you when you cease to find your glory in being persecuted. Your good friend, Frederick.

— Horace Walpole's letter to H.S. Conway, dated 12 January 1766 • In those days in Europe the recipient had to pay for the postage for any mail received. [ ] • Rousseau's letter is atrocious; it is to the last degree extravagant and inexcusable.But do not believe him capable of any falsehood or artifice; nor imagine that he is either an impostor or a scoundrel.His anger has no just cause, but it is sincere; of that I feel no doubt.

Here is what I imagine to be the cause of it. I have heard it said, and he has perhaps been told, that one of the best phrases in Mr Walpole's letter was by you, and that you had said in jest, speaking in the name of the King of Prussia, 'If you wish for persecutions, I am a king, and can procure them for you of any sort you like,' and that Mr Walpole.had said you were its author. If this be true, and Rousseau knows of it, do you wonder that, sensitive, hot-headed, melancholy, and proud.he has become enraged?