HIS109Y1 Lecture : Rousseau
Document Summary
Books are important, the social contract as a response to locke. Rousseau was influential in the contraction of the new western society. Different from voltaire, he did not offer and solutions to problems. Build upon the ideas of others, but he reached conclusions which others could not imagine. Man in born free, but everywhere he is in chains started a conversation which lasted and progressed even after marx. Rousseau you are what you write, in order to understand the social contract we need to understand. she gave these men promising career, she provided him with a job as a copier. he left the bareness: the conversion is described in the confessions. Emile helps to explain the reaction to rationalism, romanticism. The book makes a number of critical points: book-learning is counter productive because it destroys the natural sense.
