Jacques Rousseau (secular activist)

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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1. When was Jacques Rousseau (secular activist) born?June 28, 1712
2. Where was Jacques Rousseau (secular activist) born?Geneva, Switzerland
3. When did Jacques Rousseau (secular activist) die?July 2, 1778
4. What is the influence?French Revolution, modern democratic theory, human rights movements
5. Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a thinker born in Geneva in 1712 who wrote about how people should think for themselves and how governments should work.
6. What did Rousseau think about the church and religion?Rousseau believed that governments should not be ruled by religious rules, and he wanted a kind of "civil religion" that comes from people’s shared ideas instead of from a church.

Natural Liberty: The freedom an individual possesses in the state of nature, unrestrained by societal laws.
Civil Liberty: The freedom an individual gains through the social contract, protected by the collective will.
Sovereign: In Rousseau's theory, the collective body of citizens acting as the supreme authority.
Noble Savage: A philosophical concept suggesting humans are inherently good before societal corruption.