Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Enlightenment thinker composer human philosopher political philosopher writer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose works on political theory, education, and human nature profoundly influenced modern democracy, romanticism, and revolutionary thought.

Aliases (2)

Jean-Jacques ×3
Rousseau ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment thinker → composer → human → philosopher → political philosopher → writer →
birthDate	1712-06-28 →
birthPlace	Geneva → Republic of Geneva →
burialPlace	Panthéon, Paris →
citizenship	Republic of Geneva →
deathDate	1778-07-02 →
deathPlace	Ermenonville → Kingdom of France →
era	18th century →
familyName	Rousseau →
fieldOfWork	autobiographical writing → education theory → music composition → political philosophy →
genre	autobiography → novel → opera → political treatise →
givenName	Jean-Jacques →
influenced	French Revolution → Immanuel Kant → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Maximilien Robespierre → Romantic literature → modern democracy → modern educational theory →
influencedBy	John Locke → Michel de Montaigne → classical republicanism →
language	French →
movement	Enlightenment → Romanticism →
name	Jean-Jacques Rousseau →
nationality	Genevan →
notableWork	Confessions → Discourse on the Arts and Sciences → Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men → Emile, or On Education → Julie, or the New Heloise → Reveries of the Solitary Walker → The Social Contract →
philosophicalConcept	amour-propre → civil religion → general will → natural goodness of man → social contract →
religion	Christianity →

Referenced by (59)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Theory of Justice → Alexis de Tocqueville → Cesare Beccaria → French republicanism → German idealism → Irving Babbitt → Johann Gottfried Herder → Johann Gottfried Herder → Johann Gottlieb Fichte → John Rawls → Marquis de Condorcet → Mary Wollstonecraft → Nakae Chōmin → Percy Bysshe Shelley → Philosophy of Right → Pierre-Joseph Proudhon → Pierre-Joseph Proudhon → Romantic nationalism → Thomas Day → Treatise on the Origin of Language → William Godwin →	influencedBy
Book I (The Social Contract) → Book III (The Social Contract) → Book IV (The Social Contract) → Confessions → Discourse on the Arts and Sciences → Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men → Emile, or On Education → Julie, or the New Heloise → Reveries of the Solitary Walker → The Social Contract →	author
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding → John Locke → Michel de Montaigne → Niccolò Machiavelli → Samuel Pufendorf → Some Thoughts Concerning Education → Thomas Hobbes → Voltaire →	influenced
Clarens, Switzerland → Enlightenment rationalism → Marc-Michel Rey →	associatedWith
Jean-Jacques Annaud ("Jean-Jacques") → Jean-Jacques Dessalines ("Jean-Jacques") → Jean-Jacques Rousseau ("Jean-Jacques") →	givenName
Panthéon, Paris →	burialPlaceOf
Maurice Quentin de La Tour →	depicted
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ("Rousseau") →	familyName
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Enlightenment philosophy →	hasNotableFigure
Ermenonville →	hasNotableResident
St. Peter’s Island →	inspiredWorkOf
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau →	name
Encyclopédie →	notableContributor
Ermenonville →	placeOfDeathOf
Nakae Chōmin →	translatedAuthor
St. Peter’s Island →	visitedBy