Background
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
Where Rousseau was born
What is the general will?
The will that represents the common good for all people
This contract allowed the public to participate in lawmaking aiming towards the common good
The social contact
After he was a Catholic, Rousseau reconverted to _____
Calvinism
When “women become good mothers, men will be good husbands and ______”
fathers
In the 2nd war of Villmergen who won, Protestants or Catholics?
Protestants
Rousseau believed this form of government was unfair towards citizens
Absolutism
How were the rich more advantageous than the poor? (Name at least one example)
They were exempt from taxation, had rights over peasants, went to university
True or False: Rousseau believed a country couldn’t function without religion
True
Rousseau believed women should focus on these traditional roles:
cooking, cleaning, nursing
Who gave Rousseau a shelter and expanded his knowledge?
Louis Eleanor’s, baroness de Warens
What was the social contact?
It explained that authority comes from the people
Rousseau believed that comparison of social statuses created this emotion
Jealousy
What is civil religion?
a set of beliefs that unite a nation
What is Emile?
A novel explaining ideas of education and women’s roles in the 18th century
When Diderot got imprisoned for his irreligious beliefs, what did Rousseau conclude about reason?
Without feeling, reason could not save a persons humanity. Feeling was essential to life.
Fill in the blank: “Man is born ___, and everywhere he is in chains”
free
Fill in the blank (publication): _____ on the Origin of Inequality
Discourse
He believed that Christianity maintained a person’s _____
Goodness
Rousseau argued that women shouldn’t take part in this:
Lawmaking
Fill in the blank: “What wisdom can you find that is greater than _______”
kindness!
What is the term that referred to Rousseau’s belief in government legitimacy coming from the public? This also referred to the public having power to create and sustain laws
Popular sovereignty
What does "state of nature" mean?
Rousseau's belief that humans are born good and free
What two principles couldn’t work together, Christianity and ______?
Republicanism
What did Rousseau argue about women’s education?
It should be suitable for their traditional role