Background Information on Rousseau

1. Background Information on Rousseau By: nadroJ, kciN, ydoC, celA, nitsuJ, Sakajausa

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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 English’s 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.)