Jean Jacques Rousseau Research Paper

Romanticism was founded as an ideological opposition to the growing support for the empirical and scientific mindset in the 18th century. Similarly, the key players in the French Revolution adopted this rebellious way of thinking, most evidently through the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a passionate romantic thinker, conveying ideas of childhood innocence in Émile, ou De l’éducation (Emile, or On Education) and idealistic notions of the perfect human society in Discours sur l'origine (The Origin of Discourse) with his most well-known work acting as a philosophical cornerstone of the latter parts of the Revolution: The Social Contract. Rousseau’s incredibly influential writings were aimed to oppose the modernity