POL320Y1 Lecture 4: October 5th
12 Dec 2016
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He is a modern thinker in the sense that he praises modernity and the breaking of the chains. He is contrary to enlightenment thinkers that praised the development to modernity. We are enslaved to false ideas about what our true desires are and are a slave to acquiring more passions. French speaking city state geneva, who was independent. Mother died in childbirth, this was the first of his life"s many misfortunes. Ended up in paris, befriended diderot the editor of. Enlightenment thought (18th century) reason is a source of emancipation and should be universally held. Challenged traditional ways of thinking and church authority. Faith of reason at the expense of all other things. Rousseau also adopted this critical light and shone it not only on church authority but also on enlightenment thinkers themselves. He was an enlightenment thinker but he also was a critic of the critics .
