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Jean-Jacques Rousseau   /dʒin-ʒɑk rusˈoʊ/   Listen
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

noun
1.
French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778).  Synonym: Rousseau.





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... secretly be it understood, toward the tropical regions of love. These two natures of woman, so opposed to each other, have at the bottom of their hearts, the one that faint desire for virtue, the other that faint desire for libertinism which Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to have the courage to diagnose. In one, it is a last reflexion of the ray divine that is not extinct; in the other, it is the last ...
— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac


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