Study for The Cellist Painting by Amedo Modigalini

Amedo Modigliank ROUSSEAU JEAN JACQUES
FRABCE: A REVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHER

The most known books of Rousseau are: A Treatise on Social Contract: or the Principles of Political Law (1762), A discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequalities of Man, Introduction of Political Economy, Emile, Julie, Observations, Confession, Dialogues and Reveries. He advocated liberalism and in particular, democracy. Rousseau believed that ‘ man established the state out of his free will. In the natural state in which men lived in the past, they entered into agreement with each other. As such , the state is born out of the collective will of the people. ’In Rousseau’s views, the natural state in which men lived in the past was far better than the present social state.