By Frederick William Dame
This paintings examines the political considered Jean-Jacques Rousseau within the parts of nature, human nature, society, and political improvement. It strains the impression and non-influence of Rousseau within the writings of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the Connecticut Wits, Royall Tyler, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge. It exhibits the place those writers overlap and the place they disagree. acceptable quotations from the unique French of Rousseau's works "Emile", "Du Contrat Social", "Discours sur l'Inegalite", etc., (with English translations) are in comparison with awesome examples from the above-mentioned authors. established upon those comparisons, the writer makes conclusions in regards to the political final result of the yankee Revolution and the consequent improvement of an American identification. The booklet incorporates a precis in English and German in addition to an appendix bearing on Rousseau's "Romanticism" and the way it encouraged the advance of yankee colonial song.
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Its literary importance lies in the connection the written word has to the exercise of political activity. It shows the force of clearly written thoughts. Its political importance lies in the fact that it distinctly states a belief in the political worthiness of humble man, and the necessity of governments to ask and reflect what the citizens think, as long as their thinking and acting is based upon sound moral principles and their freedoms guaranteed by law. Government, Individual Rights, Religion, And Society In Common Sense Thomas Paine promises his readers "simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense" information about the following subjects: I.
Although the greater part of the earlier pamphlets presents an assessment of the American position in the war, the Rousseauian doctrines regarding individuals and their relationship to the socio-political system provide the firm foundation for the writings. Paine expresses an ideology of social idealism and egalitarianism and calls for Americans to retreat from the entrenched ideology that England had forced upon them, just as Rousseau calls for Frenchmen to retreat from the government that 14 (Thus n,..
392 respectively. " It is " ... ") Discourse sur l'Economie Politique, Oeuvres Completes, Vol. III, p. 245, and Discourse on Political Economy, Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 38, p. 369 respectively. 20 For a summary of these contradictory interpretations consult Stephen Ellenburg, Rousseau's Political Philosophy, (Ithaca, New York: 1976), pp. 16-31. "21 A second important term we should be aware of is Rousseau's idea of nature. The word nature will occur numerous times throughout our prose journey with Rousseau and if the reader is aware, the individual meanings can, with little difficulty, be gathered from the context in which the term is used.