Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28-Jun-1712
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Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, known as one of the most influential thinkers during the 18th-century European Enlightenment, was born on June 28, 1712, in Geneva, Switzerland. His first philosophical work, A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, discussed how science and the arts had created moral and ethical degradation. Rousseau is a composer and composer of music.