Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Geneva was the first of many to present the Alps as a place of allure and beauty, banishing the prevalent conception of the mountains as a hellish wasteland inhabited by demons.

Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education ( as outlined in his treatise Émile ) were the basis of Ampère ’ s education.

Augustine ( 354 – 430 ) applied the title Confessions to his autobiographical work, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the same title in the 18th century, initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical, autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond.

The Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: " Tell him I know no greater man on earth.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

He met and later fell out with Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In 1742 he befriended Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

They were brought together by their friend in common at that time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The Tao Te Ching focuses upon the beginnings of society, and describes a golden age in the past, comparable with the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Progressive education can be traced as far back as to the works of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with both being respectively known as paternal forerunners to the ideas that would be demonstrated by the likes of Dewey.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les origines françaises du fascisme.

Hegel, French materialist and utilitarian philosophe Claude Adrien Helvétius, Swiss collectivist philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, and Savoyard conservative Joseph de Maistre as thinkers who constituted the ideological basis for modern authoritarianism, in his book Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty.

Two of the most outspoken critics of the guild system were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, and all over Europe a tendency to oppose government control over trades in favour of laissez-faire free market systems was growing rapidly and making its way into the political and legal system.

Many other French philosophes ( intellectuals ) exerted philosophical influence on a continental scale, including Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would argue, however, that his concept of " general will " in the " social contract " is not the simple collection of individual wills and precisely furthers the interests of the individual ( the constraint of law itself would be beneficial for the individual, as the lack of respect for the law necessarily entails, in Rousseau's eyes, a form of ignorance and submission to one's passions instead of the preferred autonomy of reason ).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (; 28 June 17122 July 1778 ) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression.

In 1776, he completed Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques and began work on the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

Among other things, the ship of the line Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( launched in 1795 ) was named after the philosopher.

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( Les Confessions ), 1770, published 1782

* Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques, published 1782

* The Political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited from the original MCS and authentic editions with introduction and notes by C. E. Vaughan, Blackwell, Oxford, 1962.

* Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau English translation, as published by Project Gutenberg, 2004 # 3913

The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

* July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher ( b. 1712 )

* July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher ( b. 1712 )

Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), in his influential 1762 treatise The Social Contract, outlined a different version of social contract theory, as the foundations of political rights based on unlimited popular sovereignty.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau – ( 1712 – 1778 ), Swiss philosopher and writer

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Popular sovereignty in its modern sense-that is, including all the people and not just noblemen-is an idea that dates to the social contracts school ( mid-17th to mid-18th centuries ), represented by Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of " general will " and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.

* July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer ( b. 1712 )

* Napoleon Bonaparte ( First Consul ), Jean-Jacques Cambacérès ( Second Consul ), Charles-François Lebrun ( Third Consul ), Consuls ( 12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804 )

* 1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist ( d. 2006 )

* 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist ( d. 1748 )

Jean-Jacques Ampère ( 12 August 1800 – 27 March 1864 ) was a French philologist and man of letters.

John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

* 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1893 )

* 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar ( b. 1800 )

* 1951 – Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer / songwriter

* 1946 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director

* 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest, founder of Society of Saint-Sulpice ( d. 1657 )

* November 26 – Jean-Jacques Willmar, Luxembourg politician ( b. 1792 )

*** Jean-Jacques Dessalines ( 1801 – 1806 )

* August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1811 )

* March 14 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau leaves Geneva for the first time.

* September 6 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house in Switzerland is stoned by a mob.

* August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist, writer, and historian ( d. 1864 )

* October 17 – Emperor Jacques I of Haiti ( Jean-Jacques Dessalines ) is assassinated at the Pont-Rouge, Haiti, and Alexandre Pétion becomes first President of the Republic of Haiti.

* November 18 – Battle of Vertières: The Haitian army led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeats the army of Napoleon.

* October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet ( b. 1528 )

* September 20 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution ( d. 1806 )

* June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher ( d. 1778 )