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rousseau
/ɹuˈsoʊ/
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What does rousseau mean?
proper noun
- A surname from French.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan philosopher.
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Among the theories of Rousseau that relating to the perfection of the primitive social state had a great success.
Even J. J. Rousseau--confounding communism and equality--has said somewhere that, without slavery, he did not think equality of conditions possible.
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Since no one has stated in the doctrine both its truth and falsity better than Rousseau, we shall turn to him.
This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant.
But the best example of a book, which is also a relic, is the “Imitatio Christi,” which belonged to J. J. Rousseau.