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

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

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

Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) Swiss political philosopher ; influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in primacy of reason and is closer to Romanticism.

Tabula rasa is used by 18th century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to support his argument that warfare is an advent of society and agriculture, rather than something that occurs from the human state of nature.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer and philosopher

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

* French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes his famous books, The Social Contract and Émile, or On Education

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

The Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contrasted Sparta favourably with Athens in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, arguing that its austere constitution was preferable to the more cultured nature of Athenian life.

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

( Although Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential book Émile convinced many mothers of the time to nurse their own children, sending babies to wet-nurses was still common among the middle and upper classes.

Examples include the poet Algernon Swinburne ( as implied repeatedly in his poetry ) and the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as detailed in his autobiography Confessions:

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

And in his The Social Contract, the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said:

His work is a criticism of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher whose ideas influenced the French Revolution.

* June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher ( died 1778 )

His major contribution was the popularization of the egalitarian doctrines of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Japan.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer and philosopher.

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

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's reactions on visiting the Pont du Gard in 1737 produced in him the response that Hitler hoped for Berlin, to impress with its grandeur.

* 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.

As a clergyman, he expected to have ample opportunity to carry out his educational ideas, however the failure of his first sermon and influence from philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau led him to pursue a career in law and political justice.

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d ' Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

* 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher ( d. 1746 )

* 1694 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1768 )

* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1694 )

Originating about 1650 to 1700, it was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), physicist Isaac Newton ( 1643 – 1727 ), and philosopher Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ).

* May 30 – Voltaire, French philosopher ( b. 1694 )

* March 1 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( b. 1694 )

* Francis Hutcheson ( 1694 – 1746 ) philosopher of metaphysics, logic, and ethics

* Voltaire, ( 1694 – 1778 ), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian

Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( December 22, 1694, Hamburg – March 1, 1768, Hamburg ), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation.

Baron Samuel von Pufendorf ( January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694 ) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian.

Francis Hutcheson ( 8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746 ) was a philosopher born in Ireland to a family of Scottish Presbyterians who became one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.

* May 30-Voltaire, philosopher and satirist ( born 1694 )

* March 1-Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher ( born 1694 )

* February 6-Antoine Arnauld, theologian and philosopher ( born 1694 )

Antoine Arnauld ( February 6, 1612 – August 8, 1694 ) — le Grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father — was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician.

François-Marie Arouet, the French writer, historian and philosopher known as Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ) published his " Treatise on Toleration " in 1763.

* Francis Hutcheson ( philosopher ) ( 1694 – 1746 ), Scottish philosopher

It is named after the Rue Voltaire, which is named after François-Marie Arouet ( 1694 – 1778 ), better known under the pen name Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.

In the Enlightenment, French historian and philosopher Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ) was a major proponent of the possibility of progress.