Background Information on Rousseau

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Background Information on Rousseau

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General Background

• Born June 28th 1712 In Geneva in the Republic of
  Geneva
• Died July 2nd 1778 in the Kingdom of France he
  was 66 years old.
• Main ideas were Political philosophy, music,
  education, literature, autobiography.

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Background

• His Philosophy was greatly credited to the French
  Revolution.
• He believed in step by step instructions and
  rules to accomplish simple or complicated things.
  

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Background

• Is Regarded as the most influential philosopher
  and he also enlightened people.
• Roussaueas book The Social Contract describes
  Relationships of man and society.

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Theory of Natural Human

• The first man who, having fenced in a piece of
  land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve
  enough to believe him, that man was the true
  founder of civil society. From how many crimes,
  wars, and murders, from how many horrors and
  misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind,
  by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the
  ditch, and crying to his fellows Beware of
  listening to this impostor you are undone if you
  once forget that the fruits of the earth belong
  to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
• This quote describes the rights and ownership of
  men.

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His beliefs

• Rousseau believed that the savage stage was not
  the first stage of human development, but the
  third stage. Rousseau thought the third savage
  stage of human societal development was an
  optimum, between the extreme of the state of
  brute animals and animal-like "ape-men" on the
  one hand, and the extreme of decadent civilized
  life on the other.

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Social contract

• He wrote four books on the social contract.
• Each book describes different elements of his
  theories.
• All four books discuss different topics and
  beliefs of Rouseasaue.

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Social contract

• Book one describes human rights and rights that
  all men should have.
• Book two is on the enlightenment of Sovereignty.
• Book three talks about government and divisions
  of governments, and how the Englishs usurpation
  is going to be a prime example of why we declare
  our independence.
• Book four talks about the rights of people in the
  government sense.

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Social contract in the Declaration of Independence

• The concept of natural rights and the idea of the
  social contract were shown in the colonists when
  they challenged the right of Great Britain too
  control their economic and political lives.
• It's a contract meaning it can be abolished by
  the people to throw a revolution when they
  believe the government is taking their rights.
  "That whenever any Form of Government becomes
  destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
  People to alter or to abolish it, and to
  institute new Government,
• Our Constitution is both subjective, objective.

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Social contract in the Declaration of Independence

• The concept of natural rights and the idea of the
  social contract were shown in the colonists when
  they challenged the right of Great Britain too
  control their economic and political lives.
• It's a contract meaning it can be abolished by
  the people to throw a revolution when they
  believe the government is taking their rights.
  "That whenever any Form of Government becomes
  destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
  People to alter or to abolish it, and to
  institute new Government,
• Our Constitution is both subjective, objective.

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Declaration Of Independence

• Our Declaration Of Independence was written and
  main ideas came from the social contract.
• Our ideas of peoples rights and freedom of
  speech, press, assembly, and etc
• Many of our founding fathers were deist.

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Works Cited

• www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html
• www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm
• Bertram, Christopher, "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring
  2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)