Rousseau
Social contract theorist
Rousseau typically refers to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century philosopher whose ideas about natural human goodness, social contracts, and education shaped Enlightenment thought and influenced the French Revolution.
His works include *The Social Contract* and *Émile*.
The name also identifies Henri Rousseau, the French painter known for naive jungle scenes.
His philosophy is pure Rousseau—children uncorrupted until society ruins them.
Titled personal revelations
- EmileFrench masculine given name
- JulieClassic feminine name
- epistolaryPertaining to letter-writing
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
romanticism · pre-romantic · sentimentalism · narrative · prose · didactic · novel · memoir
Art of instruction
- EmileFrench masculine given name
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
learning · discovery · experience · curiosity · nurture · upbringing · student · moral education
Agreement exchanging freedom for order
- state of natureHypothetical pre-governmental human existence
- noble savageIdealized primitive innocence
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
popular sovereignty · legitimacy · collectivism · republicanism · citizenship · polity · statecraft · amour-propre
Enlightenment French thinker
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- DiderotPhilosopher who assembled comprehensive knowledge
- encyclopedistAuthor of comprehensive references
- EncyclopédieComprehensive Enlightenment-era French reference
d'Alembert · salon · rationalism · secularism · progress · reason · reform · intellectual
Swiss seat of diplomacy
- ThérèseFrench feminine given name
- exileBanishment from homeland
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- autobiographySelf-penned life narrative
wanderer · watchmaker · copyist · paranoia · quarrel · break · orphanage · foundling
Of countryside or clergy care
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- natural stateUnmodified original existence
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- solitudeState of being alone
countryside · botany · herbarium · botanizing · walking · simplicity · rural · uncorrupted
Confessions
Titled personal revelations
- EmileFrench masculine given name
- JulieClassic feminine name
- epistolaryPertaining to letter-writing
autobiography · romanticism · pre-romantic · sentimentalism · narrative · prose · didactic · novel · memoir · literary
pedagogy
Art of instruction
- EmileFrench masculine given name
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- developmentProgress toward maturity
tutor · learning · discovery · experience · curiosity · nurture · upbringing · student · moral education · physical education
social contract
Agreement exchanging freedom for order
- state of natureHypothetical pre-governmental human existence
- noble savageIdealized primitive innocence
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
inequality · popular sovereignty · legitimacy · collectivism · republicanism · citizenship · polity · statecraft · amour-propre · civic virtue
philosophe
Enlightenment French thinker
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- DiderotPhilosopher who assembled comprehensive knowledge
- encyclopedistAuthor of comprehensive references
Encyclopédie · d'Alembert · salon · rationalism · secularism · progress · reason · reform · intellectual · Montesquieu
Geneva
Swiss seat of diplomacy
- ThérèseFrench feminine given name
- exileBanishment from homeland
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
autobiography · wanderer · watchmaker · copyist · paranoia · quarrel · break · orphanage · foundling · controversy
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- natural stateUnmodified original existence
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
solitude · countryside · botany · herbarium · botanizing · walking · simplicity · rural · uncorrupted · pristine
- 18th Century WritersVoltaire, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Goldsmith
- enlightenment educationliberal arts, classical languages, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy
- Enlightenment ThinkersLocke, Voltaire, Kant, Hume, Diderot
- EthicistsAristotle, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Mill
- French IntellectualsJean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Sartre, Voltaire
- French ThinkersDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Voltaire, Montesquieu
RousseauVoltaire
French Enlightenment satirist
Diderot · d'Alembert · Condorcet · Hume · Kant