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Jean-Jacques Rousseau born 1712

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the key people of the Age of Enlightenment,  was born June 28, 1712 in the city of Geneva, Republic of Geneva.

 

Swiss stamp for Jean-Jacques Rousseau showing his portrait in blue Jean-Jacques Rousseau on a french stamp showing his portrait as a young man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)
Part of Switzerland’s Pro Patria 1962 set
Engraver: Karl Bickel Jr.
J.J. Rousseau (1712-1778)
Part of France’s Famous people (1956 II) series
Designer: Michel Ciry Engraver: René Cottet  

Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains an important figure in the history of philosophy, both because of his contributions to political philosophy and moral psychology and on account of his influence on later thinkers. Rousseau’s own view of most philosophy and philosophers was firmly negative, seeing them as post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, as apologists for various forms of tyranny, and as playing a role in the alienation of the modern individual from humanity’s natural impulse to compassion. Jean Jacques Rousseau (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

 

2024’s stamp featured the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Archduchess of Austria.

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