Rousseau and Radicalization
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Rousseau and Radicalization
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Abstract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was one of the most innovative thinkers of the Enlightenment. He broke with most other philosophes—political thinkers of the period—by insisting that passion and emotion had more influence over the formation of human societies than did rational thinking.
Contents
- The Enlightenment
- Kant and the Redemption of Enlightenment
- Rousseau and Radicalization
- From Locke to Jefferson
- English Bill of Rights
- John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government
- John Locke: An Essay on Human Understanding
- Charles de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws
- Voltaire: Candide
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
- Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary
- Catherine II of Russia: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners
- Denis Diderot: Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville
- American Declaration of Independence
- Immanuel Kant: “What Is Enlightenment?”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
- Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population
- David Ricardo: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation