ANT207H5 Lecture 4: jan 13
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From a family of watch makers, very competent people. Rousseau focuses on: how do human, though fundamentally free, live in chains. From a republic unlike other nations at the time; a little more democratic than other places. Moved from a wealthy area of geneva to a less wealthy (tradesmen) part of the nation. At the age of 10 his father moved away to another city and remarried. At 13apprenticed as a notary, then an engraved. At 15 was locked out of the gates of geneva, after curfew, and went to the duchy of savoie and e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)tered (cid:862)francoise- louise de (cid:449)arre(cid:374)s(cid:863), and educated him and became his lover. De warrens goal was to bring rousseau from protestant to catholic, by doing this he gave up his gene van citizenship. Moved to paris and meet a seamstress and she became his lover. He also befriended the writer of the encyclopedia and contributed chapters to it.
