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agmbio t1_isrqevg wrote

What was Rousseau’s ideology? I’ve read several things, some people say it is liberalism, some anti-liberalism… I have trully no idea because he had a very bad relationship with Voltaire, which makes me doubt too

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BillBigsB t1_isrzm1t wrote

Fascism baby, he invented it!

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agmbio t1_issz6d9 wrote

I had no idea! Why do you say that?

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ephemerios t1_it2o9do wrote

Because they're either falling for typical pseudo-history of philosophy nonsense or are making fun of those who do.

>Rousseau framed the house, Hegel finished it!

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BillBigsB t1_istcpil wrote

The common will — Rousseau framed the house, Hegel finished it!

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Gentlerwiserfree t1_it22gnv wrote

Wikipedia is generally a good place to start

And it depends on what you mean by “liberalism” — freedom to do what?

Specifically on the topic of whether his ideas were freeing or repressive:

He believed in that sort of philosophy where everyone born into a group must be ideologically limited to the doctrines of that group, must not question those doctrines, must glorify those doctrines and through that glorification, work towards the advancement of the group. That dissenters from that doctrine should not be tolerated.

I am of the opinion that that undermines any claim towards liberality that one might attribute to him. But his time and place were so different from the present that if you understand his time, you can see how dissent was such a rare thing, and easy to condemn.

Again, context.

These labels like “liberalism” are really pointless unless you’re talking about one issue over a limited time-span. Freedoms often come at the expense of other freedoms. The thing Person A thinks of first when they hear the word “freedom” has everything to do with that individual’s priorities and circumstances in their surroundings.

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