“The Death of Socrates” – Extra-credit The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David is a perfect example of a neoclassical painting. As a characteristic of this time‚ the author focuses on symmetry and on the characters’ faces to tell the story. Jacques Louis David uses a smooth texture in his composition and primary bright colors predominantly in the disciples’ robes. It is a secular piece of art that represents a historical moment‚ the death of Socrates‚ a Greek philosopher‚ known as one of the
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on the people to form society. The entire contract explains the aspects to answer this question (Rousseau‚ Jean Jacques. "The Social Contract."). The contract states that there is a way for a person to be part of a society‚ yet still be able to answer to themselves alone. Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ and John Locke all have different views on this contract. Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that men would form a progressive state from wild men to conform to society‚ but states that it
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thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean Jacques Rousseau discussed and considered the "state of nature" as a starting point to their political and philosophical ideas. John Locke‚ whose work influenced the American Declaration of Independence‚ believes that the state of nature is the state where are individuals are completely equal‚ natural law regulates‚ and every human being has the executive power of the natural law. Similarly Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ whose writings are said to influence
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his real name a secret to protect himself from being singled out from the mob. He is part of the Jacquerie‚ the driving force behind the overthrow of the French government and the Reign of Terror. Known only as Jacques Three‚ he symbolizes the devouring spirit of the revolution. Jacques Three is not described in detail until II/15‚ when he is present as the wood-sawyer tells the story of Gaspard’s execution. He is pictured with hands at his mouth‚ as if he physically hungers for vengeance on the
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enlightenment authors‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft‚ took part in a debate in which they argued about the purpose and education of women. In an article recently written in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn‚ the impact of the Enlightenment authors’ work on the 21st century is described. Though both of the authors expressed their arguments well‚ Mary Wollstonecraft’s debate was overall more persuasive and convincing than that of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s‚ and her argument
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During the Enlightenment‚ French philosophers introduced several ideas relating to thought and reason. This cultural movement brought a different way of thinking. Philosophers‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ Voltaire‚ and Baron Charles Montesquieu had similar thoughts on society‚ reason‚ and the government. These philosophers had five shared beliefs. The first belief is that thinkers can find the truth by using reason. The second belief is that what is natural is good. For example‚ human actions are shaped
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This primary source analysis will focus on an account describing the hostile confrontation of French Huguenots unwillingly trapped inside a house by a Catholic Parisian mob on the night of 4 September 1557‚ Saint-Jacques street in Paris. The document titled ‘Affray in the rue Saint-Jacques‚ September 1557’ is a 1996 English translation by historian Robert J. Knecht (in the second edition of his compilation of sources French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and Henry II) of the French Calvinist theologian
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and curvilinear elegance. The new architecture was about rational design‚ and hence is often called Rational Classicism. Jacques-François Blondel- architect who Launches the attack on the Rococo. Blondel’s rationalism was seconded by the influential writer Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier- he declared that function‚ not beauty‚ should determine the style of a building. JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT- architect an ardent follower of Blondel‚ who designed the most famous rationalist building. Work: The
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Rousseau’s Social Misunderstanding In The Social Contract‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposes a utopian type social contract that all citizens are informally entered into. In this contract‚ Rousseau calls for the people to sacrifice their natural freedoms in order to receive a greater and more beneficial state of civil liberty. Civil liberty being the state of being subject to laws that are for the benefit of the community opposed to the individual. Rousseau claims that these sacrifices will result
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