Jean-Jacques Rosseau
who is he?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, known as one of the most influential thinkers during the 18th-century European Enlightenment period, was born on June 28, 1712, in Geneva, Switzerland. His first philosophical work, A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, discussed how science and arts had caused the corruption of virtue and morality. Rousseau was also a composer and music theorist.
who wrote the social contract?
Hugo Grotius (1625), Thomas hobbes (1651), Samuel Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689),jean-jacques rosseu (1762), and Immanuel Kant (1797) are among the most prominent of 17th- and 18th-century theorists of social contract and natural rights.