Rousseau,+Jean-Jacques

Thinkers' Name: Jean-Jacques Rosseau Write a two paragraph Mini-Biography on your assigned Thinker. Your Mini-Biography should include: Birth and death dates, place of origin, chronological facts about his/her life, and any important or groundbreaking original works.

MINI-Biography:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born June 28, 1712. He was a major Genevious philospher, writer and composer of the 18th century. He wrote novels such as "Emile: Or on Education", and "Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise'. Rousseau also made contributions to music. He was the most popular philosopher among all the others. Jean-Jacques Rousseau focused on what influenced men to act negatively towards society. He believe that art and science wasn't beneficial to humankind becuase they didn't come about naturally. He was an advocate and was one of the first modern writers to attack private property. Jean-Jacques Rousseau political philosophy was politics and mortality should not be separated. He had an idea of education and how it could be influenced as today modern education. His theory on education were two assumptions that men were created by nature and that society was corrupt. After, he decided to reform and live a new life. He was the founding father of democratic nationalism. He saw the people as the true foundations of a nation. Rousseau theorized, distinct forms of government have to do only with the execution of the sovereign laws. He said "democracy is dangerous in application to particular cases, where the general will of government can easily be lost in the pressure of private interests.

Answer the following questions:

 ~What events in this person’s life, from child to adulthood, shaped him or her? What shaped him was, his father and uncle disbanded him, so he had to raise himself from a child to an adult who soon became what of the best philosphers.

~ What hurdles did they overcome in order to accomplish what they did?

What was harsh was he didn't have anyone to really motivate him becuase his mother died while he was young and his family left him.

~ What did this person do that was the highlight of their life?

He was a great philosoper, he was an advocate, and a author that wrote many great books of his time.

~ Did this person do anything that was special and affected many others? Yes. He wrote books that many people read. He also wrote a lot too, so he was mainly known for that by people. He was much more famous for his romantic novel 'Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise' which was read by a large number of people throughtout his time.