The cult that grew up around Rousseau after his death, and particularly the radicalized versions of Rousseau's ideas that were adopted by Robespierre and Saint-Just during the Reign of Terror, caused him to become identified with the most extreme aspects of the French Revolution.

Hume's ideas about human nature expressed in the Treatise suggest that he would be happy with neither Hobbes's nor his contemporary Rousseau's thought-experiments.

As he grew more and more interested in Rousseau's ideas, he began to promote Enlightenment ideology.

Soane was very much influenced by the ideas that belonged to the enlightenment, and had read Voltaire's & Jean-Jacques Rousseau's works.

* Rousseau's religious ideas with reference to the religious ideas prominent in the revolution and to their influence on Robespierre and Saint Just, doctoral thesis by Elma Gillespie Martin ( 1918, Cornell University )

Many of Rousseau's suggestions in this book are restatements of the ideas of other educational reformers.

Scholars have also tried to analyze the influence this liaison might have had on the composition of the novel and the evolution of Rousseau's ideas.

Beyond the lake to the north, the hameau was sited like a garden stage set, initially inspired in its grouping and vernacular building by Dutch and Flemish genre paintings, philosophically influenced by Rousseau's cult of " nature ", and reflecting exactly contemporary picturesque garden principles set forth by Claude-Henri Watelet and by ideas of the philosophes, their " radical notions co-opted into innocent forms of pleasure and ingenious decoration " as William Adams has pointed out.

The German Romantic nationalism of Herder and Kant derived from the Enlightenment era philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau's and French Revolutionary philosopher Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ' ideas of naturalism and that legitimate nations must have been conceived in the state of nature.

A sympathetic observer, British philosopher David Hume, " professed no surprise when he learned that Rousseau's books were banned in Geneva and elsewhere.

Burke maintained that the excesses of the Revolution were not accidents but were designed from the beginning and were rooted in Rousseau's personal vanity, arrogance, and other moral failings.

Rousseau's writings had an indirect influence on American literature through the writings of Wordsworth and Kant, whose works were important to the New England Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on such Unitarians as theologian William Ellery Channing.

Common also were attacks by defenders of social hierarchy on Rousseau's " romantic " belief in equality.

In France the first labour laws were Waldeck Rousseau's laws passed in 1884.

Crucial readings in his adolescence were Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker and Confessions, André Gide's journal, La porte étroite, Les nourritures terrestres and The Immoralist ; and the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.

In France, the first labour laws were Waldeck Rousseau's laws passed in 1884.

As a disciple of Rousseau, Robespierre's political views were rooted in Rousseau's notion of the social contract, which promoted " the rights of man " ( Schama ; 1989 ; 475 ).

In Britain, many readers who were skeptical of French philosophy in general, welcomed her books because they presented many of Rousseau's methods while at the same time attacking his principles.

Enhancing the elegiac mood of these views were the altars and monuments, the ' Rustic Temple ', and other details meant to evoke Rousseau's Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Rousseau's German disciples were also influences that shaped his view of life.

Rousseau's flat, seemingly childish style was disparaged by many critics ; people often were shocked by his work or ridiculed it.

At the Exposition Universelle of 1853, where all Rousseau's rejected pictures of the previous twenty years were gathered together, his works were acknowledged to form one of the best of the many splendid groups there exhibited.

The article on fingering in Rousseau's Dictionnaire ( 1768 ) contains rules which the author presents ' with confidence, because I have them from M Duphli, excellent harpsichord teacher who possesses above all perfection in fingering ' ( though either Duphly or Rousseau overlooked the fact that these ' rules ' were lifted word for word from Rameau's, in his Pieces de clavecin of 1724 ).

The Eighth and Ninth Walks were completed, but not revised by Rousseau, and the Tenth Walk was incomplete at Rousseau's death.

By " monotheism " and " anti-nature " he did not imply a political process: he related these terms to the tradition of Western philosophy and religion, and left no doubt that for him they were not only adjuncts of Rousseau's notion of liberty, but also of the Christian Gospels and Parmenides ' concept of being.

Many writers ( such as Nikos Kazantzakis ) extol passion and disparage reason ; while in politics modern nationalism is a direct result of Rousseau's argument that rationalist cosmopolitanism brings man ever further from his natural state.

He recalled Rousseau's visit to Britain in 1766, saying: " I had good opportunities of knowing his proceedings almost from day to day and he left no doubt in my mind that he entertained no principle either to influence his heart or to guide his understanding, but vanity ".

Rousseau then claimed the two had stolen the credit for the words and music he had contributed, though musicologists have been able to identify almost nothing of the piece as Rousseau's work.

He recalled especially Rousseau's statue at the Panthéon (" I almost knelt before it ... he whom Tolstoy described as the conscience of the 18th century "), the River Seine and the tollings of the Notre Dame.

In a career that spanned almost two decades, Praskovia performed in over a dozen operas, including Monsigny's Le deserteur and Aline, reine de Golconde, Paisiello's L ' infante de Zamora, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Le Devin du village, and Piccinni's La buona figliuola maritata.

Rousseau's natural man is more or less like any other animal, with " self-preservation being his chief and almost sole concern " and " the only goods he recognizes in the universe " being " food, a female, and sleep ..." This natural man, unlike Hobbes's, is not in constant state of fear and anxiety.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

To avoid certain defeat in the courts, he moved away to Nyon in the territory of Bern, taking Rousseau's aunt Suzanne with him.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

Rousseau's letter to Hume, in which he articulates the perceived misconduct, sparked an exchange which was published in Paris and received with great interest at the time.

Good or bad, the theories of educators such as Rousseau's near contemporaries Pestalozzi, Mme de Genlis, and later, Maria Montessori, and John Dewey, which have directly influenced modern educational practices do have significant points in common with those of Rousseau.

Rousseau's idea of the volonté générale (" general will ") was not original with him but rather belonged to a well-established technical vocabulary of juridical and theological writings in use at the time.

Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).

Using Rousseau's thought as an example, Arendt identified the notion of sovereignty with that of the general will.

It was Rousseau's fellow philosophe, Voltaire, objecting to Rousseau's egalitarianism, who charged him with primitivism and accused him of wanting to make people go back and walk on all fours.

Crawfurd and Hunt routinely accused those who disagreed with them of believing in " Rousseau's Noble Savage ".

Struensee was very involved with the upbringing of the Crown Prince Frederick VI along the principles of Enlightenment, such as outlined by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's challenge to return to nature.

In the mid-1750s, Rameau criticised Rousseau's contributions to the musical articles in the Encyclopédie, which led to a quarrel with the leading philosophes d ' Alembert and Diderot.

Opposed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theory of social contract, Barrès considered the ' Nation ' ( which he used to replace the ' People ') as already historically founded: it did not need a " general will " to establish itself, thus also contrasting with Ernest Renan's definition of the Nation.

In Rousseau's mind, she became identified with a character in the great novel he was then writing, Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse.

Here he became intimate with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's friend Julie de Bondeli.

A posthumous play, Les Précepteurs, using the themes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile: Or, On Education, was performed on 17 September 1794 and met with an enthusiastic reception.

His most important work, the Franco-Gallia ( 1573 ), found favour neither with Catholics nor with Huguenots in its day ( except when it suited their purposes ); yet its vogue has been compared to that obtained later by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social.

Rousseau's theory of freedom, according to which individual freedom is achieved through participation in the process whereby one's community exercises collective control over its own affairs in accordance with the ' general will '.