What is Rousseau's philosophy?

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1. What is Rousseau's philosophy?
2. What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau well known ideas?
3. What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue for?
4. What did JJ Rousseau believe?
5. Who gave the slogan Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains?
6. How is Rousseau totalitarian?
7. Will of all Rousseau?
8. How does Rousseau view mankind?
9. What is Rousseau's view on the right of the strongest as discussed in The Social Contract?

What is Rousseau's philosophy?

Rousseau believed modern man's enslavement to his own needs was responsible for all sorts of societal ills, from exploitation and domination of others to poor self-esteem and depression. Rousseau believed that good government must have the freedom of all its citizens as its most fundamental objective.

What was Jean-Jacques Rousseau well known ideas?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
School	Social contract Romanticism
Main interests	Political philosophy, music, education, literature, autobiography
Notable ideas	General will, amour de soi, amour-propre, moral simplicity of humanity, child-centered learning, civil religion, popular sovereignty, positive liberty, public opinion

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What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue for?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly believed in the innate goodness of man and in basic human rights founded upon universal natural law; in addition, he believed that both rulers and the citizens have natural human rights as well as obligations to each other which should be bound in a social contract.

What did JJ Rousseau believe?

Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a city-state like his native Geneva.

Who gave the slogan Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world famous.

How is Rousseau totalitarian?

Why Rousseau is called a totalitarian thinker is quite manifest in his observation he makes in Chapter VI (The Limits of the Sovereign Power); “If the state is a moral person whose life is in the union of its members, and if the most important of its cares is the care for its own preservation, it must have a universal ...

Will of all Rousseau?

In a passage from the treatise Of the Social Contract, Rousseau makes a critical distinction between what truly constitutes the will of a group of people. While the general will looks out for the common good, the will of all looks out for private interests and is simply the sum of these competing interests.

How does Rousseau view mankind?

Rousseau proclaimed the natural goodness of man and believed that one man by nature is just as good as any other. For Rousseau, a man could be just without virtue and good without effort. According to Rousseau, man in the state of nature was free, wise, and good and the laws of nature were benevolent.

What is Rousseau's view on the right of the strongest as discussed in The Social Contract?

Rousseau states that there is no “right of the strongest.” Strength itself only forces obedience through fear, but it cannot possibly “produce morality.” If “the strongest [were] always right,” the concept of “rights” would be meaningless: anyone who says it is right to “obey those in power” really means that people ...