Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753
Born	(1712-06-28)28 June 1712 Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died	2 July 1778(1778-07-02) (aged 66) Ermenonville, Kingdom of France
Era	18th-century philosophy (early modern philosophy)
Region	Western philosophy
School	Social contract Romanticism
Main interests	Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
Notable ideas	General will, amour de soi, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty, public opinion
Influences Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, D'Épinay
Influenced Kant, French Revolution, American Revolution, Robespierre, Saint-Just, Counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Hume, Paine, Smith, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Proudhon, Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Derrida, de Sade, Strauss, Montessori, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dewey, Kitsikis, Madame de Stael, Schopenhauer, Fichte, Rawls
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (28 June 1712^[1] – 2 July 1778) was a famous French-speaking philosopher. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland^[1] and always described himself as being Genevan.^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Gay, Peter (1966). "In Search of an Ideal Society". Age of Enlightenment. Time-Life Books. pp. 63-64.
2. ↑ Bertram, Christopher (2020). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.