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Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.
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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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Citizen of Geneva
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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J. J. Rousseau
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Rousseau
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J.J. Rousseau
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JJ Rousseau
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Bir baba, Tanrı'nın kendisine verdiği aile içinde bir seçim, bir tercih yapamaz. Tüm çocukları eşit biçimde çocuklarıdır; tümüne aynı özeni, aynı sevgiyi göstermelidir. Sakat olsunlar ya da olmasınlar, ister güçsüz ister güçlü kuvvetli olsunlar, her biri babanın elinden tutması gereken bir emanettir ve evlilik karı koca arasında olduğu gibi doğa ile de yapılmış bir sözleşmedir.
War, then, is not a relation between men, but between states; in war individuals are enemies wholly by chance, not as men, not even as citizens, but only as soldiers; not as member of their country, but only as its defenders. In a word, a state can have as an enemy only another state, not men, becuase there can be no real relations between things possessing different intrinsic natures.
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