Rousseau - life works & influence

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Mind Map on Rousseau - life works & influence, created by kwallis992 on 04/02/2014.
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Rousseau - life works & influence
  1. Unique position - philosophe but outsider of movement.
    1. Individuality to his thought
      1. Gives precedence to feeling over reason.
        1. Against progress as it is linked to science & reason.
          1. Mainstream yet radical thinker
          2. Based on feeling, emotion and nature
            1. Reference to Revolution = his legacy
              1. Precursor to romanticism.
                1. Redefines basis for love
                2. Exiled - writing was a threat to constitution/religion
                  1. Nature & politics
                    1. What is nature / man's natural state
                      1. Sceptical about progress & civilisation
                        1. Society should be defined according to nature principle
                          1. Need to show new moral order of society
                            1. Focus on individual freedom
                            2. Nature is starting point of education
                              1. Introspection is the source of his self places view of self at centre of his thought
                                1. Self-generated nature & morality
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