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Rousseauism

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[roo-soh-iz-uhm] / ruˈsoʊ ɪz əm /

noun

  1. the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.


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Origin of Rousseauism

First recorded in 1860–65; Rousseau + -ism

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It must be confessed that his own shallow political science, the second-hand Rousseauism he had learned from his desultory reading, had little to do with this, except negatively.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

It was all Rousseauism in experiment and reduced to absurdity.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

We of the twentieth century are not going to accept the sweetish, faintly nasty slops of Rousseauism that so gratified our great-great-grandparents in the eighteenth.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There are two chapters of "Rousseauism," I have not     touched yet--Rousseauism in Theology, and Rousseauism in Education.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Rousseauism is, indeed, in its essence the application to education of the doctrines of naturalism—the philosophy which regards human life as a mere continuation of physical process, and consequently as determined wholly by environment.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

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