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Emile

Disciplines:
philosophy
child development
rousseau

Summary

Rousseau's 1762 treatise on education — following the fictional Emile from birth to adulthood under the guidance of a tutor — arguing that natural education (developing the child's innate faculties before introducing social conventions) produces a virtuous and free adult.

Core Contribution

Founded progressive education — education should follow the child's natural development rather than impose adult forms — and argued that amour propre (comparative self-regard) is the corruption education must resist, not the natural foundation it should build on.

Historical Influences

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Intellectual Lineage

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Research

Allied Works

Discourse on Inequality The Social Contract

Contemporaries & Peers

The Social Contract Education tradition

Minds Influenced

Progressive education Dewey Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

Emile Natural educationRousseau's pedagogyProgressive education tradition

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