Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man was called Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and his book was a theory, and nothing but a theory.

Doctor Claudius, A True Story 1881

Political philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau retorted with a materialistic view called the “social contract” doctrine.

Odds and Ends from Kansas - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Colin Millerchip, the head of Product Management at Red-Gate, is perhaps more 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau' than 'fraternité'.

Simple Talk rss feed red@work 2009

I was leery about Brooks' trope, based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, of creating hypothetical characters but he pulled it off.

John Thompson: The Education of David Brooks John Thompson 2011

The discrepancy arises, he says, "because Jean-Jacques Rousseau has triumphed," by which he means that "we believe ourselves to be good, and that evil, or bad, is the deviation from what is natural."

Unraveling the Mystery of Murderous Minds Brian M. Carney 2011

Gadhafi as a quintessential student of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: He made clear that he deeply distrusted any political group that might stand between individual citizens and the "General Will" as interpreted by the Legislator i.e., Col.

With Libya's Megalomaniac 'Philosopher-King' Robert D. Putnam 2011

Todd has his own movie-making dream: a three-part epic of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Confessions."

Five Best: Movie Directors in Fictional Form Patrick McGilligan 2011

I was leery about Brooks' trope, based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, of creating hypothetical characters but he pulled it off.

John Thompson: The Education of David Brooks John Thompson 2011

The middle years of the 18th century have been called the Age of Sensibility, when thinkers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau who sat for La Tour redefined the human animal as a receptacle of sentiments, rather than as a Christian, a banker, a grandee or anything else.

A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging James Gardner 2011

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's famous declaration—"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains"—summarizes the heart of the vision of the anointed, that social contrivances are the root cause of human unhappiness and explain the fact that the world around us differs so greatly from the world that we would like to see.

Notable & Quotable 2012