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    Rousseau and Experience in Education Rousseau strongly believed that the best method for raising children is to allow them to learn by themselves through experience in nature. “He among us who best knows how to bear the goods and the ills of this life is to my taste the best raised: from which it follows that the true education consists less in precept than in practice. We begin to instruct ourselves when we begin to live.” By creating an imaginary child‚ Emile‚ Rousseau is able to show us the

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Theory of Education: Natural Education Darny Mao November 10‚ 2014 Introduction to Philosophy Providence College Professor Nichols Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a revolutionary French philosopher who in addition held his position in society as an eloquent writer of the Enlightenment Age. Much of Rousseau’s thoughts and theories illuminated through his writings‚ and his works reflected his disdain for contemporary society in which he assured to undermine

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    He describes how Rousseau took offense to the thought of the Enlightenment and political obligation. The eighteenth century Europe‚ was the birthplace of the literary term. These thinkers supported the use of reason and science as the foundation for all belief and conduct for religion and philosophy. On the other hand‚ Rousseau “maintained that human understanding is not the sole domain of reason‚ but is‚ as he stated‚“greatly indebted to passion” (Frey‚ Raymond). Rousseau also firmly believed

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    Rousseau was born in Geneva‚ which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy. Since 1536‚ Geneva had been a Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism. Five generations before Rousseau his ancestor Didier‚ a bookseller who may have published Protestant tracts‚ had escaped persecution from French Catholics by fleeing to Geneva in 1549 where he became a wine merchant.[3] Rousseau was proud that his family‚ of the moyen order (or middle-class)‚ had voting rights

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    Hobbes and Rousseau and how these portrayals are reflected in their political theories. Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were philosophers of the mid 17th and mid 18th centuries respectively and proposed two political theories - in “Leviathan” (Hobbes‚ 1651)‚ “The Second Discourse” (Rousseau‚ 1755) and the “Social Contract” (Rousseau‚ 1762) - that were very different but that once analysed‚ could be argued to have common characteristics and goals. Both Hobbes and Rousseau based their

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    sovereign. It would be impossible to define the latter terms without first analyzing Rousseau’s definition of state of nature. This has to do with the fact that none of the terms have relevance without the existence of the state of nature. According to Rousseau‚ the state of nature is when there is no outside force influencing an individual’s decisions. It is here that a person can truly be called an individual. A good example of this definition is when a caveman lives alone and does what he pleases‚ when

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    force in the way each of us think in our daily lives. During the time of Rousseau these ideas we just taking off‚ with thinkers like Hobbes and Locke were carrying the idea forward. However‚ what Rousseau provided in his works‚ in particular piece The Social Contract challenged those notions of individualism‚ highlighting holes in reasoning as well as exposing the inherent flaws that lie in a hyper-individualist society. Rousseau sought to counter previous notions of not only primitive man‚ but of the

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    The Influence of Kant and Rousseau on the Enlightenment The eighteenth century was a time of rapid change and development in the way people viewed humans and their interaction with others in society. Many countries experience revolution and monarchies were overthrow. People began to question the values that were ingrained in society and governments that ruled them. Two of the biggest philosophers of that time were Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ who both ignite the overthrow of tradition

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    beside men‚ in areas distinctly characterized to be men’s work? Jean Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft‚ both writers of the 18th century‚ take it upon themselves to write about how to achieve the ideal women through education. However‚ their relations stop there‚ for both recommend different forms of education‚ and both envision diverging views of how the ideal women functions. For the 18th century‚ Rousseau may have perhaps expressed the common outlook on women for the time‚ and Wollstonecraft

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    Malia Gerard June 30‚ 2012 PSYC-508 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) * Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher‚ writer‚ and composer of 18th-century Romanticism of French expression. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political‚ sociological and educational thought. * Known as the Father of the French Revolution * Saw children as “noble savages” - naturally endowed with a sense of right and wrong

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