HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Natural Religion, Flirty Fishing, Philosophes
30/11/2015
Lecture 19
The Philosophes: Rousseau
J.J. ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)
EMILE (1762)
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT (1762)
• Marx owes a great deal to Rousseau
• Rousseau’s harater helped shape the reolutioar proess
• Using power of the state to make sure that the word and intentions of God are
obeyed—Calvinist
• Geea as Cali’s attept to uild a perfet soiet o Earth
ROUSSEAU
• Rousseau wanted to create a world guided by virtue in which the unvirtuous could be
controlled and the virtuous could prosper
father had delusions of grandeur
his as a odd ad ople harater
picked up on the road by a widowed young woman who picked up young
Protestants by the ide of the road and converted them to Catholicism (flirty
fishing)
Rousseau shacked up with her, became her lover and other things
Was a born musical genius, wrote a series of successful operas
Imprisoned a couple times
• Won competition with Didero
• Result was that everyone wanted to speak to this remarkable young man
• Rousseau aepted these ut as’t happ
• Uofortale eause he as surrouded ulture he did’t ko aers
• Everyone wanted Rousseau around because he was so different
• She kept him awhile in a country state
• Rousseau happier than he ever was because he was alone
• Completed both Emile and The Social Contract in these times
• Someone who had an influenced
EMILE
• Rousseau argues that a child should not be educated with books and learning
• Purpose of education should be to allow the child to get into contact with his own
natural views
• Development of child provide insight into development of community
• Education, teaching, learning Rousseau said no
• Education leads to sin
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