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| Rousseau's Cenotaph Artist; Hubert Robert Location: Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet - Paris |
"Let your conscience be your guide" (Rousseau (1762)
Always let your conscience be your guide” (Jiminy Cricket, from the movie Pinocchio, 1940).
Rousseau Realms of Thought
The Necessity of Freedom
Defining the Natural and the State of Nature
The Danger of Need
The Possibility of Authenticity in Modern Life
The Unnaturalness of Inequality
The General Will and the Common Good
The Idea of Collective Sovereignty
Rousseau's Encyclopedia enty on Opera
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.014/--opera?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=rousseau
The Philosophes
http://www.columbia.edu/~pf3/philosophes.pdf
The thinkers who called themselves philosophes were a diverse group who lived in France in the eighteenth century and led an intellectual movement that came to be called the Enlightenment. They are usually credited for inventing the language and concepts that were used during the French Revolution, but they did not participate themselves in the Revolution, since all the most prominent members of the group had already died when the Revolution broke out in 1789. The group includes figures like Voltaire and Rousseau, who disagreed on many fundamental issues. What united them intellectually can best be seen in the Encyclopedia, published by Diderot and d’Alembert between 1751 and 1772. The Encyclopedia was an ambitious, 28-volume attempt to account for all aspects of human knowledge, both theoretical and applied. It was also a highly effective propaganda tool that sought to disseminate the ideas of the philosophes.
“This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.” —Diderot
“This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.” —Diderot
The Age of Enlightenment is, in Europe, one period of great scientific rise and blooming of the critical reason. The French philosophers, like Rousseau, Diderot and Voltaire, state generous principles on the natural right, the equality between the men, and say the need for improving the company, to release oppressed, to inform the poor.
Their theories inspire the lit despotism, which as well causes liberal awkwardnesses of Joseph II of Austria and certain German princes that cold calculations of Frederic II of Prussia or impostures of Catherine II of Russia. In France, the enlightened despotism does not find to apply, and it is finally the people which will express themselves directly by the insurrection of 1789.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/enlightenment_music_contract/electronic_resources.html
Madame Geoffrin's Salon
Discourse
which was awarded the prize by the Academy of Dijon
in the year 1750
which was awarded the prize by the Academy of Dijon
in the year 1750
On this Question, which the Academy itself
proposed,
Has the restoration of the sciences and the arts contributed to
refining moral practices?
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
Ovid*
Ovid*
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