Enlightenment Thinkers

Rosette F. CalderonBSED 2F(SS)

Francis Bacon Adam Smith

Thomas Hobbes Immanuel Kant

Montesquieu Charles Darwin Voltaire Karl Marx

Rousseau John Locke

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Boigraphy:

-anak nina Isaac Rousseau at Suzanne Bernard

-ipinanganak sa Geneva

-noong June 28, 1712.

-ang kanyang ama ay gumagawa ng orasan.

-1725, Rousseau was apprenticed to an engraver and began to

learn the trade

•left Geneva in 1728, and fled to Annecy

•he met Louise de Warens, who was instrumental in his conversion to Catholicism

•this time he earned money through secretarial, teaching, and musical jobs.

•In 1742 Rousseau went to Paris to become a musician and composer

•met a linen-maid named Therese Levasseur, who would become his lifelong companion•Ikinasal sila noong 1768

•Nagkaroon ng limang anak.

• He worked on several articles on music for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie

•1750 he published the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences•Namatay noong Hulyo 2,1778

Beliefs/thoughts:

•Arts and sciences were a par of the way of life that corrupted people’s natural goodness.

•Ang mga taong nakatira sa sibilisadong lugar ay karaniwang hindi masaya, mapag-inggit, at makasarili.

•More in peoples institution about goodness than in a rational scientific approach.

•Children should grow up in the country and be allowed to enjoy their youth.

•Children should learn from books , only when they became interested in learning.

•A society was formed by people making a social contract with the others in the community, agreeing to work for the good of all.

•Ang taong gagalaw nang sama-sama ay makagagawa ng magandang desisyon sa pamahalaan.

Achivements and works:

• isinulat niya ang Emile noong 1762.

•At iniapply niya ang kanyang mga teyorya sa ukol sa edukasyon sa kanyang librong Emile.

•1762- Soial- contract.

•1761- Julie or the New Heloise isa sa mga popular na ginawa ni Rousseau.

•his greatest directly philosophical influence is on the ethical thought of Immanuel Kant.

•1750 - Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) o mas mas kilala bilang First Discourse.

•1753 - The Village Soothsayer isang opera na itinanghal sa France.

•1753- Narcissus or the lover of himself isang play na ginawa niya.

•1753- Letter on French music.

•1755- Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality o ikalawang diskurso.

•1755- Discourse on Political Economy o Ikatlong diskurso na makikita sa Encyclopedie.

•1758- Letter to Alembert on the Theater.

•1763- Letter to Christopher de Beaumont, na isang Arsobispo sa Paris.

•1764- Letters Written from the Mountain

• 1767- Dictionary of Music.

•1780- Émile and Sophie or the Solitaries.

•1782 - Considerations on the Government of Poland.

•The Confessions - Part I 1782, Part II 1789

•Rousseau judge of Jean-Jacques, Dialogues(First Dialogue 1780, Complete 1782).•1782 - Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

Some Famous quotes from Rousseau:“True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes”

“ I may not be better than other people , but at leas I’m different”

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death”

“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding

we are force to obey it”

References:jdelaney@niagara.edu Last updated: October 21, 2005 | Originally published: October 21, 2005

Marvin Perry, A History of The World (Boston, Massachusetts: Huoghton Mifflin Company 1989)408-412, 431.

Bro. Andrew Gonzalez and Cristina Velez, Kasaysayan ng Mundo(927 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, inc.1998)297.