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Emile | Jean Jacques Rousseau
Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important of all my writings”. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar,” Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society— how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. Its opening sentence: "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.” Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract to survive corrupt society He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children.[5] It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness
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PKARiF
Émile: Or, Treatise on Education | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bailedbailed

Awesome

RamsFan1963 I'm confused. Is the book awesome or did you bail on it?? 6y
tournevis I get it. It creates awe 6y
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Émile: Or, Treatise on Education | Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Called "the eighteen-century bible of feeling" by Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus, page 261)

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Emile | Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Rousseau‘s classic work on the philosophy and practice of education. Emile‘s tutor attempts to show how a young person can be brought up to fulfill their innate natural goodness in a corrupt society."

This was also recommended to me by my new socialist friend. Not sure if 1000 pages is worth my time. ?

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Chrisalynn
Emile | Jean Jacques Rousseau
Panpan

I really don't like Rousseau. He was a terrible hypocrite. He wrote a book on how to raise a child yet made his mistress give up all five of their children to a foundling hospital. And he wrote this after this happened.

PurityofEssence @Chrisalynn Do you think you might have enjoyed this book more if you weren't already aware of Rousseau's disgusting behavior towards his children? 8y
Chrisalynn @PurityofEssence He did have some revolutionary ideas, such as mothers nursing their own children. But no, overall it was just him being pretentious and a know it all. 8y
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