Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.

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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.

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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva Jean Jacques Rousseau J. J. Rousseau Rousseau J.J. Rousseau JJ Rousseau
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Örneğin çocuk gördüğü bir şeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir şeyse, o zaman bu şeyi çocuğa getirmektense çocuğu ona götürmek daha doğru olur: O, bu uygulamadan yaşına göre bir sonuç çıkarır ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin başka hiçbir yolu yoktur.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?

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