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At the same time he followed Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau in proposing the social contract as the ultimate test of political legitimacy.
Rousseau offered no programme for changing society wholesale to restore mankind in general to its primal innocence and goodness.
Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
Considering Rousseau, with whom he quarrelled, as utopian, he hypothesized an art which was morally neutral and elitist.
Henri Rousseau was a self-taught Sunday painter who began intensive painting when he was 40 years old.
Rousseau went much further than constructive, intelligent suggestions for urban planning.
I don't believe the Rousseau argument that if you leave everything in a state of nature, then everything will be peaceful and loving.
Rousseau asked that that part of the forest be left unmanaged, preserved for true nature lovers such as the Barbizon artists.
The cloth is creased, the day's newspaper is folded neatly, and an unopened letter to Monsieur Ph. Rousseau awaits its reader.
You probably know this, but Rousseau argues that we're all born good, without taint of sin, and society inexorably corrupts us.
Rousseau maintained an art school, where he taught painting, diction, and music.
Rousseau was concerned with unity between the author and his work, but not in terms of consistent ideas.
Therefore, if Rousseau were interested in spiritualism, during his lifetime it need not have made him an object of ridicule.
Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence.
Rousseau taught that human beings are naturally asocial, and in that case to live in society is to be terribly oppressed.
Jean Jacques Rousseau expounded the idea that government rested on a social contract.
Rousseau laid the basis for modern ideas of democracy and the legitimacy of majority rule.
Rousseau had been on the lam throughout the States since 1981, using the stolen identity of a Dallas radio newsreader.
This theory of intuitionism influenced later philosophers, in particular Rousseau and Bergson, but also the existentialists.
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While Gilbert leaned up against the doorjamb with emotion, Rousseau took a last peep out of the window.
Rousseau and Coleridge convert the scheme of emigration into the project of pantisocracy.
She was a grandniece of the great Jean Jacques Rousseau, and flourished in the first part of last century.
Rousseau supplies her with the perfect and finished statement of all that she opposed.
Now Rousseau has in the work above mentioned proved the contrary just as axiomatically, by means of two men.
Chaumette and hebert, the followers of d'Holbach, were destroyed by the disciples of Rousseau.
Rousseau is a kentuckian, and it is very encouraging to learn that he talks as he does.
Rousseau was an exception, but then Rousseau was in truth a reactionist, and not a loyal member of the great company of reformers.
What places him far above the old painters is his fundamental power as a landscapist, a power unequalled except in Rousseau.
Really, Geneva has little to show directly connected with Rousseau beyond the mislabelled place of his birth.
Like Voltaire and Rousseau, he was born dying, and he remained delicate and valetudinarian to the end.
She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift.
Voltaire and Rousseau were the fashion, and cultured society was platonically enamoured of the Rights of Man.
Nor does he seem to have held, like Rousseau, the vox populi as the voice of God.
Ramsay corresponded with Voltaire and Rousseau, both of whom he visited.
It was by not following this simple plan that poor Jean Jacques Rousseau came to such grief.
I made one attempt to hunt up the houses once inhabited by those two disagreeable people, Rousseau and Calvin, but I had no success.
He considers that Rousseau certainly told lies about himself in his confessions, and even intentionally lied, out of vanity.
When was J. J. Rousseau himself given to the turning of periods?
Jean Jacques Rousseau enunciated your socialistic theory nearly two centuries ago.
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