![]() It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness, as well as being one of the first Bildungsroman novels. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. For this paper I have used the following translation of the Emile: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education. For an account of the importance of Emile in Rousseaus system, see Arthur Melzer, The Natural Goodness of Man (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990), 7. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. Gallimard, Bibliothbque de la Pldiade, 1959-1969), Vol. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Due to a section of the book entitled Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar, Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. ![]() Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the best and most important of all his writings. In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influence on. Book Synopsis Emile, or On Education or mile, or Treatise on Education is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. ![]()
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