And what best place to start with than by educating people to be good citizens? So the philosopher conceives of a thought experiment where he plays the role of a tutor for more than 20 years of a young scholar named Emile. Rousseau wants to reform the state of the decadent human institutions of his time. The book concludes with a profile of Emile's prospective bride, Sophie, that emphasizes the role of mothers in educating their children but encourages women to be submissive to their husbands-a view that excited controversy even among Rousseau's contemporaries and helped inspire Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The fourth part explores the cultivation of sentiment, with particular focus on natural religion.
Rousseau's five-part approach devotes the first three sections to Emile's early education, including the child's interactions with the larger world and the selection of a trade. With its theories on the retention of innate human goodness and the avoidance of corruption from bourgeois society, the book offers prime examples of the author's philosophy.
Emile recounts a boy's education, and Rousseau considered it the most important of his writings. Remember that he has written, "it is the conflict between the needs and.A foundational text of Western education, this 1762 treatise served as a model for a new approach to teaching during the French Revolution.
It now clear that Rousseau's philosophical underpinnings and his attitudes and beliefs about society feed into his recommendations for how to educate the child. The author has revealed more of his personal beliefs and views on education and the "Emile" has moved into his childhood. Those using the summary should be aware that in the event of pagination variance, they can follow the above as a basic guideline. The edition used to create this summary is the Everyman publication, with Barbara Hoxley's translation from French into English. The general trend in the book summary is for each chapter to cover approximately 50 pages of the original text. The entire treatise of Emile is divided into books by the author rather than into chapters.
Book 2, Book 2 : Chapter 2, Submission Summary and Analysis
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