I’m Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and I’m a 18th century philosopher who pioneered the Romanticism sensibility. I was born in Geneva in 1712 and my mother died 9 days after I was born. My father abandoned me and my older brother when I was 10, and my older brother also ran away when I was young. lived under the care of my uncle. I converted to Catholicism and hiked around Europe on foot. (Cartoon Packet 95) I didn’t have much education as a child, and had many short term jobs throughout my teenage years. Later, I also became secretary to the French ambassadors in Vienna. I have worked on people more freely expressing their emotions rather than being restrained and polite. I worked with Denis Diderot and contributed many ideas to his Encyclopédie. …show more content…
I believe in feeling more so than logic in matters relating to politics and religious studies.
I believe in individual freedoms for everyone. Some of my contemporaries believe that people are inherently bad and that strict governments should be put in place to control them. I believe the opposite. I think that government restricts people and limits their freedom. People were the most free long ago before we implemented rigid laws that bound people and stripped them of their liberties. Civilizations haven’t always been bad, but we’ve reached where we are now through a series of bad decisions as our society became more sophisticated. People were inherently good before civilizations, and there was no greed or sin that drove people to do such incorrect things. Naturally, people would behave correctly and take only what was directly necessarily for their survival. People have been “corrupted by bad institutions such as governments, schools, cities and armies, which caused the social inequality, suffering and injustice that were everywhere.” (Novaonline) Civilization led people to desire more material possessions and to want to take power over others. Without these