This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

" A Genevan watchmaker ," Rousseau wrote, " is a man who can be introduced anywhere ; a Parisian watchmaker is only fit to talk about watches.

Rousseau wrote that he persuaded Thérèse to give each of the newborns up to a foundling hospital, for the sake of her " honor ".

" 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.

While in Môtiers, Rousseau wrote the Constitutional Project for Corsica ( Projet de Constitution pour la Corse, 1765 ).

" In truth ," wrote Kingsley Martin, " Rousseau was a genius whose real influence cannot be traced with precision because it pervaded all the thought that followed him.

In 1919 Irving Babbitt, founder of a movement called the " New Humanism ", wrote a critique of what he called " sentimental humanitarianism ", for which he blamed Rousseau.

He wrote the original text in reaction to the optimism of his father and his father's associates ( notably Rousseau ) regarding the future improvement of society.

A large survey of history does not belie these generalizations, and the history of the period since Rousseau wrote lends them a melancholy verisimilitude.

Although Rousseau wrote that the British were perhaps at the time the freest people on earth, he did not approve of their representative government.

The phrase " civil religion " was first discussed extensively by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his 1762 treatise The Social Contract ( although this is a translation since Rousseau wrote in French ).

This relationship became noteworthy because in 1757, while Saint-Lambert was away on military duty in the Seven Years ' War, Jean-Jacques Rousseau suddenly conceived a mad passion for Sophie, which he wrote about in his Confessions.

He wrote that, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, he read philosophy extensively, embracing the ideas of Leibniz, and rejecting those of Hume, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau, and Kant.

The Swiss philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for example, wrote a political tract, a treatise on education, constitutions for Poland and Corsica, an analysis of the effects of the theater on public morals, a best-selling novel, an opera, and a highly influential autobiography.

) was exhibited in 1891, and Rousseau received his first serious review, when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: " His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed ; it's the alpha and omega of painting.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in his opus The Social Contract that " Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them: they love their servitude ".

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a pastorale heroïque called Daphnis et Chloè between 1774 and 1776.

Early accounts by Dutch explorers and the English bucaneer William Dampier wrote of the " natives of New Holland " as being " barbarous savages ", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine Watkin Tench ( the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ), accounts of Aborigines were more sympathetic and romantic: " these people may truly be said to be in the pure state of nature, and may appear to some to be the most wretched upon the earth ; but in reality they are far happier than ... we Europeans ", wrote Cook in his journal on 23 August 1770.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Geneva during the 18th century

Her infant son was also in perilous health following the delivery ; the adult Rousseau later wrote that " I came into the world with so few signs of life that little hope was entertained of preserving me ".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau made the same general point when he wrote: " The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ' This is mine ,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Not long after publication many other writers ( such as Goethe, Wordsworth and De Quincey ) wrote their own similarly styled autobiographies ; however, Leo Damrosch argues that Rousseau meant that it would be impossible to imitate his book, as nobody else would be like Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In contrast to the optimistic view of other Enlightenment figures, for Rousseau, progress has been inimical to the well-being of humanity, that is, unless it can be counteracted by the cultivation of civic morality and duty.

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.

Later modern philosophers such as La Rochefoucauld, David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau also focused on morality, but desire was central to French thought and Hume himself tended to adopt a French worldview and temperament.

A Treatise on Human Nature and later works influenced other philosophers, such as Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant — especially in discussions of morality and cause and effect.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia of Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Her first effort was called Sunflower to the sun ISBN 0-7981-1228-X ( Human & Rousseau, 1976 ), followed by Herman Charles Bosman, a Pictorial Biography ISBN 0-628-02148-8 ( Perskor, 1981 ), and most recently by Herman Charles Bosman: Between the Lines ISBN 1-77007-163-6 ( Struik, 2005 ).

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

Rousseau was a successful composer of music.

During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophes among members of the Jacobin Club.

Rousseau, a Freemason, was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, 16 years after his death.

Rousseau was born in Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy.

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

The house where Rousseau was born at number 40, place du Bourg-de-Four