GROUP 2

SUBJECT: LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

TOPIC:
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

MEMBERS:
BONGANCISO, MARLO I.
CARNAL, ALEXANDRA DAMARISSE G.
FARIOLA, MAGDALYN M.
MOLABIN, ANTONETTE JANE L.
MOLENO, LOURENCE ALBERT M.
NAVIA, ANDREA MAE A.
 Section A
O • BACKGROUND OF THE
PHILOSOPHER

Table 1 • DISCUSS THE POLITICAL CONCEPT

HE’S FAMOUS FOR

Of O Section B
• DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF

Content 2 PHILOSOPHY

Section C
s O • DISCUSS AND COMPARE CONCEPTS

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RELATED TO RIZAL
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Section A
• Background of the Philosopher
• Political Concept He’s famous for
Jean Jacques Rousseau
28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan
philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His
political philosophy influenced the progress of the
Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as
aspects of the French Revolution and the
development of modern political, economic, and
educational thought.

Born: 28 June 1712

Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died: 2 July 1778 (aged 66)
Ermenonville, Picardy, Kingdom of France
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is famous for

reconceiving the social contract as a compact
between the individual and a collective “general
will” aimed at the common good and reflected in
the laws of an ideal state and for maintaining that
existing society rests on a false social contract that
perpetuates inequality.
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Section B
• Concept of Philosophy
His Concept of Philosophy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau a

1 Swiss Enlightenment
philosopher with some Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be
radical ideas. He argued decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy
passionately for democracy, in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the
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equality, liberty, and laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a
supporting the common city-state like his native Geneva.
good by any means
necessary. While his ideas
In Rousseau’s democracy, anyone who disobeyed the general will of
may be utopian (or
the people “will be forced to be free.” He believed that citizens must
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obey the laws or be forced to do so as long as they remained a resident
thought-provoking and can
of the state. This is a “civil state,” Rousseau says, where security,
inform modern discourse.
justice, liberty, and property are protected and enjoyed by all.
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Section C
• Comparison of Concept to Rizal
Comparison to Concept of Rizal
EDUCATIONAL:
• Rousseau argues that the goal of education is learning. Our true practice is “learning about the human
condition”; “there is only one science to teach children: the science of human duty.” According to Rousseau,
to understand the teacher is to understand the future, what the child can become.

• Rizal claimed that only through education could the country be saved from domination.T he mission of
education is to elevate the country to the highest seat of glory and to develop the people's mentality. Since
education is the foundation of society and a prerequisite for social progress

POLITICAL:
• Rizal's guiding political philosophy proved to be the study and application of reforms, the extension of human
rights, the training for self government and the arousing of spirit of discontent over oppression, brutality,
inhumanity, sensitiveness and self love.
• In the idea of the general will, the centerpiece of his political theory, Rousseau finds the solution to the problem
of reconciling authority and freedom: where the laws are the citizens' general will, the law-abiding citizen obeys
only his own will and not the command of any other person, and so is free
Comparison to Concept of Rizal
RELIGIOUS:

• Rousseau proposed that the dogmas of civil religion ought to be simple: they should affirm the afterlife,

a God with divine perfection, the notion that the just will be happy and the wicked punished, and the

sanctity of the social contract and the polity's laws

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• Rizal wrote, it can be said that his concept of God could be summarized into three notions. First, he
believed that God existed. Second, he believed that God was plus supra. Lastly, he believed that God
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was the origin of nature; that is, nature was the expression of God.

Diwali falls on
November 4
Thank You!
“It is impossible to live in peace with people you think are damned”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau