Source Analysis:
Source Type: Secondary
Developed by: Bertram, Christopher
Publisher: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau
When: 2012
Fact based & credible: My source is fact based and credible because it is published on a well known, reputable top tier college website.
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He is a big part of history because of the way he influenced people with his “political philosophy and moral psychology.”
He concerns about finding a way to keep freedom.
“ In his mature work, he principally explores two routes to achieving and protecting freedom: the first is a political one aimed at constructing political institutions that allow for the co-existence of free and equal citizens in a community where they themselves are sovereign; the second is a project for child development and education that fosters autonomy and avoids the development of the most destructive forms of self-interest. “…show more content… “Rousseau was active as a composer and a music theorist, as the pioneer of modern autobiography, as a novelist, and as a botanist.”
His mother died 9 days after his birth, raised by his father Isaac Rousseau till he was 10. His father fled the city-state to avoid arrest.
Born in a independent calvinist city-state of Geneva in 1712, died 1778 at age 66
The opening words to his book the The Social Contract are “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains” This shows he believes that everyone is born free but is limited by others.
In Emile, he talks about how education should be handled. He believes in “natural goodness” and thinks it can be preserved and protected.
Delaney, James J. "Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/, n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2014. <http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/>.
