Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions

Who wrote the confessions?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Bad systems...

corrupt people

Rousseau's thoughts on social institutions

- HATES THEM!!

- people are born naturally good and moral, but social institutions make them bad

Rousseau's thoughts on ignorance and poverty

it's better!

Most popular theory

people are good but systems are bad

Ancient Greek theory about people

people are born as beasts, and everything needs to be taught through school, church, and the community

Rousseau theory on education

education is about drawing OUT talent/intelligence, not putting it into children

The Confessions are

- like augustines

- a way for Rousseau to cleanse himself of his sins for God

- relays his past experiments nonjudgmentally

Good self love

self appreciation and love

Bad self love

needing people to approve of you

How he starts his confessions

- saying "i am unique. i may not be better, but i am different."

- talks to god without asking for approval -> saying "i am proud"

Chapter one

- mom dies and dad blames him

- lives with aunt for two years and calls it paradise

- discusses embarrassing sexual experience and owns it

- declares childhood over when he is punished for something he didn't do

- becomes apprentice to abusive artist and becomes corrupted because of that (lazy, etc.)