Jean-Jacques Rousseau person
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
The Discourse on the Sciences and Arts host_asserted
“Five kids out of wedlock, gives them all up for adoption. He had a patron named Madame de Warrens. And of course, she was both a benefactress and his lover. Rousseau comes onto the intellectual scene around 1750 with his prize-winning book,…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 7:37
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality host_asserted
“Five kids out of wedlock, gives them all up for adoption. He had a patron named Madame de Warrens. And of course, she was both a benefactress and his lover. Rousseau comes onto the intellectual scene around 1750 with his prize-winning book,…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 7:37
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Julie, or the New Heloise host_asserted
“Five kids out of wedlock, gives them all up for adoption. He had a patron named Madame de Warrens. And of course, she was both a benefactress and his lover. Rousseau comes onto the intellectual scene around 1750 with his prize-winning book,…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 7:37
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
The Social Contract host_asserted
“another one called Emily, and the other one called The Social Contractor. This was around 1762. It was the last of his books. It got him banned, got him famous, but he also got banned and exiled from many countries. He used to have bitter q…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 8:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Fabian Society book_quoted
“described as they marked a dramatic shift from the rationalist optimism of the high enlightenment toward romanticism sentiment and critiques of civilization. His life and thought are best understood as a deliberate counterpoint to John Lock…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 6:33
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Karl Marx host_asserted
“He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 15:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Vladimir Lenin host_asserted
“He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 15:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Maximilien Robespierre host_asserted
“He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 15:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau founded
Immanuel Kant host_asserted
“He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 15:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced
Thomas Malthus host_asserted
“towards a more cautious, checks and balances view of human progress and profoundly shaped biology, economics, and social policy. Picture tells a thousand words, right? Yep. I got a picture. And he was influenced by our first guy, Rousseau, …”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 45:43
Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced
Maximilien Robespierre host_asserted
“conceptual bridges to later idealist and collectivist developments. Kant was very similar to Locke. His ideas were then borrowed and twisted by both sides of this. I don't want to go into too much detail on Kant because there's another guy …”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 57:01
Jean-Jacques Rousseau spied_on
Voltaire host_asserted
“another one called Emily, and the other one called The Social Contractor. This was around 1762. It was the last of his books. It got him banned, got him famous, but he also got banned and exiled from many countries. He used to have bitter q…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 8:11
Jean-Jacques Rousseau spied_on
Denis Diderot host_asserted
“another one called Emily, and the other one called The Social Contractor. This was around 1762. It was the last of his books. It got him banned, got him famous, but he also got banned and exiled from many countries. He used to have bitter q…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 8:11
Rockefeller Foundation funded
Jean-Jacques Rousseau host_asserted
“Social emotional learning. Thank you. And who funded that? The Rockefellers. All roads lead to the Rockefellers. Yes. So Rousseau is pretty much the root of a lot of things that we're dealing with today. Yes. He exalted sentiment, nature, a…”
▶ The Shadow State 69 Fabian Socialists Pt. 2 @ 14:40
Mentions (29)
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to put into collectivism. This idea goes back all the way all the way back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who believed in something called the general will. The general will was a will of the people that the people didn't know. But don't worry, …
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And let's get here. Okay. Bear with me. All right. First one we want to talk about is one of my favorite anti-heroes of all time. I brought him up last night at a libertarian meeting and like three people said, man, I hate Rousseau. So we'r…
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And they start questioning some real fundamental truths. So I think it's important to set that time. Because that led us right into the progressive era in America. And there goes the Constitution forever. So Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born 1712…
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described as they marked a dramatic shift from the rationalist optimism of the high enlightenment toward romanticism sentiment and critiques of civilization. His life and thought are best understood as a deliberate counterpoint to John Lock…
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Mom died right after he was born. Rousseau was mostly self-educated. He wanders Europe, left home at 16, converted temporarily to Catholicism. That didn't last. Works as an engraver, music teacher, copyist, and formed a long relationship wi…
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Five kids out of wedlock, gives them all up for adoption. He had a patron named Madame de Warrens. And of course, she was both a benefactress and his lover. Rousseau comes onto the intellectual scene around 1750 with his prize-winning book,…
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another one called Emily, and the other one called The Social Contractor. This was around 1762. It was the last of his books. It got him banned, got him famous, but he also got banned and exiled from many countries. He used to have bitter q…
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His central claim is that humans are born good, but they're corrupted by society. This is where we get the concept of the noble savage. Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote around the turn of the 20th century, wrote the Tarzan books, John Someth…
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That's where that comes from is the noble savage. Well, the truth is humans' nature is shitty no matter how civilized you are. People that were hunters and gatherers still killed each other. They weren't these noble savages that Rousseau tr…
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That's how we lost this perfect constitution, because we knew human nature was going to get in the way. Power will corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But humans aren't born good. Humans are born human. We're flawed. He says, in th…
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Do you think Marx and the Fabians would have taken anything from that? Holy crap. That's like everything turned around backwards. Yes. And this is basically foundational for this whole philos…
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Good. I got to turn the comments on. There we go. All right. A little more on Rochelle. Had enough of them yet? No. I mean, I've known a lot of this, obviously, from college. You had to study all of these people. It's interesting going back…
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Rousseau goes on to say a legitimate political order must rest on a new social contract in which individuals alienate their natural rights to the community, creating a sovereign general will, that's in quotes, general will, that aims to the…
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When you start getting into positive rights, you start talking about my right to vote, my right to a grocery store, all that stuff these college kids have and all the stupid signs running around. We have these rights. No, you don't. Those a…
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He says, education must protect the child's natural development from corrupting social influences, emphasizing experience, emotion, and nature over rote learning or societal molding. All these modern educational garbage that we've been teac…
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Social emotional learning. Thank you. And who funded that? The Rockefellers. All roads lead to the Rockefellers. Yes. So Rousseau is pretty much the root of a lot of things that we're dealing with today. Yes. He exalted sentiment, nature, a…
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He doesn't talk about this general will. Who creates it? Who interprets what the general will is? It's a bit of a problem. They do. Of course, they do. He had a big influence on Robespierre, a lot of the Romantics, Immanuel Kant's Moral Aut…
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We already know how he contrasts with Locke. I don't think I have to go into more detail of that. He's the exact opposite. We can just leave it at that. And it really comes down to individual rights versus collectivism. It's that simple. Sh…
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um definition of two types of inequality natural and um physical inequality and he says that um ethical and moral well there's natural or physical inequality and ethical or moral inequality…
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And he describes it. This was quoted out of a book that was written about him. Natural inequality involves differences between one human's body and that of another. It is a product of nature. And it says that he wasn't concerned with this t…
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He says that moral inequality is unique to civil society and focuses on the difference of wealth, nobility, rank, power and personal merit. And he said this particular inequality is established by, quote unquote, convention. So he's basical…
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for that type of equality not to manifest itself good work yeah so we're ready to move on he's a bad guy kind of call him pretty much call him the father of communism or marxism or basically collectivism whatever you want to term you want t…
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Born in 1766 till 1834, lived to be 68 years old, he was an English cleric, scholar, and economist. He wrote a book called An Essay on the Principle of Population, which introduced a pessimistic, mathematically grounded analysis of populati…
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conceptual bridges to later idealist and collectivist developments. Kant was very similar to Locke. His ideas were then borrowed and twisted by both sides of this. I don't want to go into too much detail on Kant because there's another guy …
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He tried to tax the privileged classes and the clergy, and they said no. That's a backfire. He also had a bunch of social inequalities. The bourgeois, or the middle class, had economic power but no political voice. The peasants faced feudal…
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Robespierre, who's a deist influenced by Rousseau's ideas of civil religion and the general will, believed that belief in a higher power was essential for public morality and republican stability. Here's the beliefs. The French people recog…
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with our god-given natural rights of life liberty and property and the only legitimate view of purpose of a government is to preserve those rights anything else becomes authoritarian and once you take that one step towards taking away some …
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Unfortunately, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau came along and radicalized the notion with the idea that humans are born equal and free, but society corrupts this equality. And his concept of the general will influenced revolutionary thought…
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which are not good things, in my opinion, which, of course, post-World War II Europe absolutely embraced that. They developed egalitarian policies through things like high taxes, universal health care, education for all, just to reduce ineq…