Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Born (1712-06-28 ) 28 June 1712Died 2 July 1778(1778-07-02) (aged 66) Era 18th-century philosophy (early modern philosophy )Region Western philosophy School Social contract Romanticism Main interests
Political philosophy , music, education, literature, autobiographyNotable ideas
General will , amour de soi , amour-propre , moral simplicity of humanity , child-centered learning , civil religion , popular sovereignty , positive liberty , public opinion Influences
Plato , Aristotle , Socrates , Machiavelli , Hobbes , Spinoza , Locke , Montesquieu , Diderot , Voltaire , D'Alembert , D'Épinay Influenced
Kant , French Revolution , American Revolution , Robespierre , Saint-Just , Counter-Enlightenment , Romanticism , Hume , Paine , Smith , Wollstonecraft , Hegel , Proudhon , Marx , Engels , Nietzsche , Darwin , Freud , Derrida , de Sade , Strauss , Montessori , Goethe , Tolstoy , Dewey , Kitsikis , Madame de Stael , Schopenhauer , Fichte , Rawls