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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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	challenging words:		influential, controversy, teaching, philosophy, ownership, obligation, society, literature, original, majority, thinker, superstition, classical, series, religion, particular
	content words:		Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau By Sharon Fabian

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¹     Maybe you have read about a young man who had a particular interest when he was growing up and later became a famous leader in the same field. Many famous musicians, scientists, architects, and artists got their start early in life. They found something they were interested in as children and stuck with it.
 
²     The story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a little different. Early in his life Rousseau took an interest in music, but that is not what he became famous for. As a young man, he trained to become an engraver, but that is not what he became famous for either.
 
³     Rousseau became known as a famous thinker. He became famous for his ideas, which people learned about through his writings.
 
⁴     As a young child, Rousseau must have had plenty of time to think. His mother died just after he was born, and later his father abandoned him. After that, he often spent time alone in a garden reading and thinking. He was given classical literature to read at a very early age.
 
⁵     Eventually, Rousseau became one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment, the period of European history that includes the 1600s and 1700s. Sometimes he disagreed with other important Enlightenment thinkers; at other times he agreed with them. He always seemed to be thinking things through, modifying and expanding on his views as he grew older.

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