SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Antone, Popular Education
20 Apr 2016
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Fought for the absolution of slavery & a more humane treatment of criminals. Women were extremely active in the fight against the old regime (also demanded changes marriage laws, & social conditions) Enlightenment philosophers wanted to establish natural rights. Ii jean jacques rousseau one of the most interesting philosophers & greatest figure that shaped 19th century romantic period (about self-awareness) More concerned w/ feeling rather than reason, intuition, sensitivity feelings underscoring ppls behaviors that need to be addressed (feeling over reason), need to embrace emotions. Virtue & goodness (thought born pceful & soc makes us war-like) Discourse of the arts and science & discourse in inequality. The social contract: new way of questioning everything & arrocrosity was destroying trad. value. Emile (1762) most aristocratic women of the time viewed children as burdens within their life (hired other women to raise kids, sent to governesses) Change in attitude - philosophers advanced cause of the mother as natural nurse (natural health)
