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Rousseauan

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Adj.1.Rousseauan - of or pertaining to or characteristic of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)


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43) I would not labor this obvious point if Breyer had not sounded a Rousseauan note in the series of rhetorical questions by which he seeks to tie O'Connor's analysis to active liberty: "What are these arguments but an appeal to principles of solidarity, to principles of fraternity, to principles of active liberty?
The principal reason sends us back to a pre-Tocquevillean geological foundation, however: to a Lockean or Rousseauan source.
Modern anthropologists have long been split down ideological lines between the Rousseauan and Hobbesian interpretation of primitive/indigenous lives.
 
 
 
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