But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

`` If they are here, then surely I have the right to be here '', Rousseau said.

At age 13, Rousseau was apprenticed first to a notary and then to an engraver who beat him.

* Pre-Romanticism ( end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century ): The influence of the English philosopher John Locke, together with that of the French Étienne Bonnot of Condillac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Denis Diderot, will cause a new feeling, dissatisfaction with the tyranny of reason, that emphasizes the right of the individuals to express their personal emotions ( repressed then by the neoclassicals ), among which figures fundamentally love.

His defenders also argued Rousseau is one of the great prose stylists and because of his penchant for the paradoxical effect obtained by stating something strongly and then going on to qualify or negate it, it is easy to misrepresent his ideas by taking them out of context.

Fraternity was then considered to resume and to contain both Liberty and Equality, being a form of civil religion ( which, far from opposing itself to Christianism, was associated with it in 1848 ) establishing social link ( as called for by Rousseau in the conclusion of the Social Contract ).

However, Rousseau was then in poor health, embittered against the world, and consequently was difficult to approach.

Rousseau then suffered a series of misfortunes.

In recommending the creation of smaller states, Rousseau recognizes the imminent First Partition with the words: " If you wish to reform your government, then, begin by narrowing your frontiers, though perhaps your neighbors intend to do that for you.

* If, then ( proved by Rousseau and Sheehan ).

Following that was Spirit in the Woods ( 1995 ), a CD dedicated to trees, then Abyss ( 1996 ), a concept that Rousseau refers to as " no music ," an experience realised with neurologists specialised in musicotheraphy.

Contrary to what his many detractors have claimed, Rousseau never suggests that humans in the state of nature act morally ; in fact, terms such as " justice " or " wickedness " are inapplicable to prepolitical society as Rousseau understands it.

Rousseau claimed that the state of nature was a primitive condition without law or morality, which human beings left for the benefits and necessity of cooperation.

Hobbes's view was challenged in the eighteenth century by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who claimed that Hobbes was taking socialized people and simply imagining them living outside of the society in which they were raised.

When the first-ever U. S. championship match took place in 1845, Stanley defeated Eugéne Rousseau of New Orleans and thus claimed the title.

Rousseau claimed he had " no teacher other than nature ", although he admitted he had received " some advice " from two established Academic painters, Félix Auguste Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, claimed ( in his Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles ) that it was Molière's best work but hated the fact that Alceste was depicted as a fool on stage.

After the village is ambushed by a group from the freighter and most of Locke's group is killed ( including Rousseau and Alex ), Locke leads Ben and Hurley to look for the cabin again, since Hurley claimed to see it.

During this period Rousseau enjoyed the support and patronage of the Duc de Luxembourg, and the Prince de Conti, two of the richest and most powerful nobles in France.

In 2007 an anonymous group called The Meritocracy Party published its first manifesto, to which they have now added more than two million words on the subject ( discussing Hegel, Rousseau, Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and various other philosophers, scientists, reformers and revolutionaries ).

To discover what can really be said about what is natural to mankind, and what, other than reason and civil society, " best suits his constitution ", Rousseau saw " two principles prior to reason " in human nature, one is an intense interest in our own well-being, and the other is a natural repugnance of seeing any sentient being, especially one like ourselves, perish and suffer.

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

For one, Rousseau argued in " The Social Contract ", that in the stereotypical liberal democracy, individuals are politically " free " once every Parliamentary term, or every two to four years, when they vote for their representatives, in their General Election or on Election Day.

The two concepts are freedom " from ," which Berlin derived from the British tradition, and freedom " to ," which Berlin derived from Rousseau.

* Nigel Warburton on the significance of two portraits of Hume and Rousseau

The French Picturesque garden style falls into two categories: those that were staged, almost like theatrical scenery, usually rustic and exotic, called jardin anglo-chinois, and those filled with pastoral romance and bucolic sentiment, influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Rousseau discusses two types of inequality, natural or physical and ethical or political.

He visited London twice, remaining on the second occasion — together with Rousseau and Monnoyer more than two years.

Rousseau, through the priest, leads his readers through an argument with only one concluding belief: “ natural religion .” Even more importantly, after this brief excursion into religious education, religion does not play any role in Emile ’ s life ; religion, however important to Rousseau ( Rousseau is believed to have created the Savoyard Vicar by combining the traits of two Savoyard priests whom he had known in his childhood: Abbé Gaime from Turin and Abbé Gâtier from Annecy ), is insignificant in Emile ’ s education and socialization.

Shortly after Thompson was formally awarded the prize, the correct solution was unravelled by two physics teachers, Mike Barker of William Hulme's Grammar School and John Rousseau of Rossall School.

Rousseau immediately performed a " double tap " maneuver, a controlled shooting technique in which the shooter makes two quick shots at the target's torso.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau described a situation in which two individuals go out on a hunt.

On the morning of December 7, Maj. Gen. Lovell Rousseau, commanding all of the forces at Murfreesboro, sent two brigades out under Brig.

Bennington has also written two monographs on Lyotard, Writing the Event and Late Lyotard, and has also written extensively on Rousseau and Kant, developing original accounts of the " paradox of the legislator " in the former and " interrupted teleology " in the latter.

Rousseau posits that any administration, whatever form it takes, should be divided into two parts.

Several decades later, Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born naturalist, echoed Rousseau ’ s philosophy as he encouraged students to “ Study nature, not books .” These two influential scholars helped lay the foundation for a concrete environmental education program, known as Nature study, which took place in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Rousseau, in On The Social Contract ( in book 4, chapter 8 ), echoed this, saying that " I am mistaken in saying ' a Christian republic '; the two words are mutually exclusive .".

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

Robespierre had realized what a tremendous propaganda tool these festivals were, and he decided to create a new religion, mixing moral ideas with the Republic, based on the ideas of Rousseau, with Robespierre as the new high priest.

Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric ; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.

Rousseau was proud that his family, of the moyen order ( or middle-class ), had voting rights in the city.

Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but he remembered how when he was 5 or 6 his father encouraged his love of reading: Not long afterward, Rousseau abandoned his taste for escapist stories in favor of the antiquity of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches.

When Rousseau was 10, his father, an avid hunter, got into a legal quarrel with a wealthy landowner on whose lands he had been caught trespassing.

Finding himself on his own, since his father and uncle had more or less disowned him, the teenage Rousseau supported himself for a time as a servant, secretary, and tutor, wandering in Italy ( Piedmont and Savoy ) and France.

Rousseau had been an indifferent student, but during his 20s, which were marked by long bouts of hypochondria, he applied himself in earnest to the study of philosophy, mathematics, and music.

From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to Venice.

In 1749, Rousseau was paying daily visits to Diderot, who had been thrown into the fortress of Vincennes under a lettre de cachet for opinions in his " Lettre sur les aveugles ," that hinted at materialism, a belief in atoms, and natural selection.

Rousseau had read about an essay competition sponsored by the Académie de Dijon to be published in the Mercure de France on the theme of whether the development of the arts and sciences had been morally beneficial.

According to Diderot, writing much later, Rousseau had originally intended to answer this in the conventional way, but his discussions with Diderot convinced him to propose the paradoxical negative answer that catapulted him into the public eye.

To the exasperation of his friends, Rousseau turned down the great honor, bringing him notoriety as " the man who had refused a king's pension.

" Rousseau, he wrote, " has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments ; and, as he scorns to dissemble his contempt for established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

'" Rousseau, who thought he had been defending religion, was crushed.