Rousseau believed that the best form of government was a democracy.

Jean jacques rousseau ideas about government images. Jean jacques rousseau s political philosophy influenced the french revolution. His ideal form of government was direct democracy. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the enlightenment throughout europe as well as aspects of the french revolution and the development of modern political economic and educational thought. Jean jacques rousseau school social contract romanticism main interests political philosophy music education literature autobiography notable ideas general will amour de soi amour propre moral simplicity of humanity child centered learning civil religion popular sovereignty positive liberty public opinion.

Jean jacques rousseau public domain it has stifled conscience natural compassion and has made us separate from each other wholly selfish and self obsessed and we now find ourselves as marx repeated in the nineteenth century separated from our real nature as a species. Indeed he decided to return to that city repudiate his catholicism and seek readmission to the. Jean jacques rousseau was a genevan philosopher writer and composer. A government in which citizens vote directly for the laws that would govern themselves.

Jean jacques rousseau was one of the most important philosophers of the enlightenment period. Jean jacques rousseau was an advocate for direct democracy. Rousseau believed that a government s purpose is to protect liberty or freedom and to help people get along. Jean jacques rousseau jean jacques rousseau major works of political philosophy.

His writings influenced how people think about government and how a democracy should work. As part of what rousseau called his reform or improvement of his own character he began to look back at some of the austere principles that he had learned as a child in the calvinist republic of geneva. Indeed in his most influential work of political philosophy the social contract 1762 rousseau asserts that democracy is incompatible with representative. Introduction jean jacques rousseau who lived from 1712 to 1778 was one of the most influential philosopher s during the enlightenment in 18th century europe.

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