SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Age Of Enlightenment, Philosophes
19 Nov 2015
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They demand changes in marriage laws. the natural rights of the citizen they were considered to be men. The most significant who shaped the 19th century romanticism. Political french theorist feelings and emotions rather than reason are the central ideas here. Discourse in inequality (1755) - people with no power thought there was a different way to do certain things. Questioning everything, made rousseau see the other faults within society. He wanted to strive for the perfectibility of mankind. He felt that the only way to do this is to understand the laws of nature and those of the social world. The current order did not remain true to humans decent values. Revolutionary shift in regards to the ways of thinking and the matters of the enlightenment. Emile (1762) - educating the child without destroying their natural states. Our primitive selves used to live in harmony with nature but the social man does not.
