The Ideas Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Through The Lens Of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Torres
Professer Underwood
RWS 101
October 28th 2013
The Ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of Thomas Jefferson. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's “the Origin of Civil Society, Rousseau presents Ideas that, in his society, were considered very radical. He points out that a Society was in a natural state and that when we were that we were born free, and when we subject ourselves to a king, he must hold up certain rights and protect them, and in return they give him power, what Rosseau called the “Social Contract” . Thomas jefferson 's “Declaration of Independence” is Dirrived from Rousseau 's text about “rights” and “the Social Contract.” The ideas that Rousseau has written about are greatly applied to the ideas that Thomas …show more content…
The list clearly shows that such things that were not being upheld, hence the reason why the american people want to revolt against the king, because he was not upholding the social contract as formentioned in rousseau 's text. Within these lists of greiviences is the aformentioned social contract rousseau was talking about. However what the people of the United states wanted at this time was freedom from england. The general concept of “free is also mentioned in Rousseau 's text. One of Rousseau 's ideas that was also talked about in his text was the idea that man was born free. This idea of being free is incorperated within the Declaration itself. “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienble Rights.” (pg. 80). This line from the declaration of independence focuses its idea to that which rousseau considers a “Right,” a word mentioned in the Declaration of independence itself. Rousseau talks about this concept of a “right” of being a sort of natural agreement of authority that all men are born with. Rousseau explains that our rights cannot derive from physcial strength, and cannot derive from our natrual authority over his fellows, he explains that a right is a sort of an authority that is given
Professer Underwood
RWS 101
October 28th 2013
The Ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of Thomas Jefferson. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's “the Origin of Civil Society, Rousseau presents Ideas that, in his society, were considered very radical. He points out that a Society was in a natural state and that when we were that we were born free, and when we subject ourselves to a king, he must hold up certain rights and protect them, and in return they give him power, what Rosseau called the “Social Contract” . Thomas jefferson 's “Declaration of Independence” is Dirrived from Rousseau 's text about “rights” and “the Social Contract.” The ideas that Rousseau has written about are greatly applied to the ideas that Thomas …show more content…
The list clearly shows that such things that were not being upheld, hence the reason why the american people want to revolt against the king, because he was not upholding the social contract as formentioned in rousseau 's text. Within these lists of greiviences is the aformentioned social contract rousseau was talking about. However what the people of the United states wanted at this time was freedom from england. The general concept of “free is also mentioned in Rousseau 's text. One of Rousseau 's ideas that was also talked about in his text was the idea that man was born free. This idea of being free is incorperated within the Declaration itself. “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienble Rights.” (pg. 80). This line from the declaration of independence focuses its idea to that which rousseau considers a “Right,” a word mentioned in the Declaration of independence itself. Rousseau talks about this concept of a “right” of being a sort of natural agreement of authority that all men are born with. Rousseau explains that our rights cannot derive from physcial strength, and cannot derive from our natrual authority over his fellows, he explains that a right is a sort of an authority that is given