From what era in philosophy Jean Jacques Rousseau belongs to?..Is he from Enlightenment period or Renaissance?

Question

pls. explain to me how come he belongs on that period..thanks!...(^_^)

Answer 1

Rousseau to my understanding belongs to the enlightment, the era in european history where men began to enthrone reason as supreme ideal and main human virtue that could take us out of the "perilous" waters of dogma. it was a movement that initiated much of today's reliance of man in man's own powers and through them to know and to master nature. Rousseau definitely belong to this era, except that he claimed that civilization wa running the wrong course and declared that the innocence of man preserved in primitive societies was more desirable due to the fatc that man was more in touch with natutre, with the whole, that is" In harmony with the absolute. One fact about Rousseau which puts him in the same category as Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Kant, Leibnitz, etal... is that he was deeply religious, unike Diderot and Voltaire who only wrote to criticize and to provoque disputes. LOL

There are many that disagree deeply with him, especially those who are more utilitarian and modernist in their conviction. i do agree up to certain extent with him, but I think he overidealized too much the orimitive state of man and flatly overlooked the state of moral underdevelopment in primitive societies where "might makes right" is the norm, or where raw brutality can appear unchecked.Not to say that we haven't crossed that barrier LOL but the fact remains that He idealized that state unwarrantedly. However this doesn't diminish the profoundity and verity of his observactions, such as:
" How can it be that if Man was made to be free, everywhere he is found to be in shckales"

I hope this answer helps. Greetings

Answer 2

Some consider Rousseau as a main figure of the Enlightenment, whereas others see his ideas as anti-Enlightenment especially over religion:

The key philosophical context for Rousseau’s work was the epoch in western Europe known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was centered in France, and its key thinkers, often called the Lumieres, or “enlighteners,” included Voltaire, Diderot, and d’Alembert. These writers held a diverse array of ideas and opinions, but the common current running through their thought was a great faith that human reason, rationality, and knowledge could be the key factors in human progress. Accordingly, they were hostile to religious dogma, received knowledge, superstition, and blind faith of any sort.
Although Rousseau is sometimes regarded as a key figure of the Enlightenment, he in fact had a complex relationship with many of its famous representatives and their mode of thought. At the start of his career, Rousseau maintained an intellectual friendship with Voltaire and even contributed some articles to Diderot’s Encyclopedie, which purported to compile the entirety of recorded human knowledge to that point. In later years, however, he fell out with both men because of personal and intellectual differences. In much of his writing, Rousseau departs from their key intellectual tenets, such as in his very un-Enlightenment habits of occasionally defending religious faith and denigrating the potential benefits of human reason and “progress.”

Answer 3

Enlightenment

The age of enlightenment is refering to the eighteenth century.

It's just a period of time