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What does Rousseau mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A surname​.
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss philosopher.
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Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau expounded the idea that government rested on a social contract.
At the same time he followed Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau in proposing the social contract as the ultimate test of political legitimacy.
Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume.
Therefore, if Rousseau were interested in spiritualism, during his lifetime it need not have made him an object of ridicule.
This theory of intuitionism influenced later philosophers, in particular Rousseau and Bergson, but also the existentialists.

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