Have you heard of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

[Julie07]

[lightbulb27]

No but I just read a brief history and explored some questions.

My life boring compared to his. He must have been very eloquent with words and in stature as he sure won the ladies over.

I enjoy viewing lives in the viewpoint of trauma... how the "grooves" placed in early life "control and steer the ship astray". His mother, unfortunately died after bringing him to the world... one can only imagine her paid. Father and uncle raised him... one can only imagine how all that worked. But he was raised without a mother. The adopting mother around age 14-20 was Catholic, apparently quite frisky, pulled an epstein and mated with him and another guy, manage e toi. I'll leave that to ones exploration of thought.

Although raised around Christian/Catholic religion, he had deep issues and diverse experience, which shows up in his thinking of ideas. He apparently had no issue with expressing his mind, as he got into a lot of trouble for it. In a way, he may have been "a wild one" for his time. He never met a single one of his 5 children... all sent to orphanages. How sad is that.

I actually met a guy like this... the original "baby daddy". He wasn't stable inside, because his parents left him. So the child of this man lacks father support and the unfortunate woman gets affronted, left to suffer her fate.

[abc3643]

In the United States - at least in many states - he and "The Social Contract" are taught about in high school social studies (aka civics) classes.

So, personally, I've known about him for almost 50 years.

[lilBigPotato]

Might have heard his name in school but if I did then I can't remember anything.

[MrChinaski]

I read him when I was 17. Like Voltaire, he is important to have written. It's also very old and dusty now, in some ways.

[MrChinaski]

@julie07 Philosophy major?

[exitseven]

Yes, he played defense for the Montreal Canadienes.

[Staximus]

We talked about him at school but that was a long time ago, He sure has a fancy hairdo

[BCRanger10]

Yes, I have. Unfortunately.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Hehe, maybe the Age of Enlightenment is not your favorite era?

[strateguy632]

he isn't famous

[KostasKouvalis]

I think you mentioned him before

[RedInnocent69]

I have. I’ve even read him

[NathanDavis]

the cookies?

[Agape93]

Yeap

[Dargil]

Mai Ouis.

[Iron_Man]

No who is he

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

The guy who wrote The Social Contract, in 1762. One book with a few implications for several countries, because:

"The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe"

which seems to correlate to an event you certainly know about:

"The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. The movement began as a rebellion and evolved into a revolution resulting in the sovereign United States."

[Iron_Man]

@Maybe_Maybe_not thanks

[Anonymous]

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