JeanJacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• Rousseau had a very strong influence on Mary
  Shelley and her work.
• She was Moved by his thoughts, dreams,
  intellectual work.
• Her description of monster in Frankenstein
  closely resembles documentation of Rousseaus
  Wanderings throughout Europe during his days of
  exile.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Born June 28, 1712
• Died July 29, 1778
• Hometown Genera Switzerland
• His mother died nine days after his birth
• His father abandoned him

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• Was a Philosopher and Composer of the
  Enlightenment.
• His Education was based solely on books
• He left Genera on March 19, 1728
• Shortly after he met Francoise who became his
  lover which led him to convert to Catholicism.

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• 1742 He moved to Paris and became the French
  ambassador in Venice between 1743-1744.
• Around 1754 he returned to genera and converted
  to Calvinism.
• He completed his second major work discourse on
  the origin and basis of inequanty
• Rousseau continued to write until his death on
  July 2, 1778

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Philosophy

• Rousseau believed that man was good when in the
  state of nature but is corrupted by society
• He argued that the arts and sciences had not been
  beneficial to human kind because they were not
  human needs but really just a result of human
  pride and vanity

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Vocabulary

• Enlightenment A European intellectual movement
  of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing
  reason and individualism rather than tradition.
  It was heavily influenced by 17th-century
  philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and
  Newton, and its prominent exponent includes
  Rousseau.

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Vocabulary

• Subjectivity Internal reality
• Calvinism Emphasizes the role of God over all
  things.

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His Ideas

• His political ideas were influenced the French
  revolution.
• He practically invented modern autobiography.
• Encouraged new focus on the building of
  subjectivity.
• Important on the development of romanticism.